Jill Ellis ‘88 >> Brings the World Cup Home to the U.S.A

ALUMNI MAGAZINE • FALL 2015 JILL ELLIS ‘88 >> BRINGS THE WORLD CUP HOME TO THE U.S.A.

ARE WE ALONE IN THE UNIVERSE?

EDUCATION REBOOT

FIVE FINE FACULTY

Our gift annuity was a great way to support Bunny’s 50th Reunion while enhancing our retirement income.”

— Jim and Ellen King Neff ’61

A s longtime members of the Honorable Robert For assistance with your Boyle Legacy Society, Jim and Bunny Neff know the charitable plans, please contact: importance of good planning. When Bunny’s 50th Reunion Lee G. Walsh ’75, M.Ed., ’90, CFP came along, the couple wanted to support her class gift Executive Director of Gift Planning in a way that would bring their charitable and financial [email protected] plans together. Diane E. McNamara, J.D. Associate Director of The Neffs were familiar with the charitable gift Gift Planning Administration annuity since they had established one with Dartmouth, [email protected] Jim’s alma mater. Working with the Gift Planning Office, The College of William & Mary Jim and Bunny established a gift annuity that provides Office of Gift Planning PO Box 8795 fixed annual payments for life. These payments will never Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795 vary and are backed by the full faith and credit of the (757) 221-1004 College of William & Mary Foundation. They also saved www.wm.edu/giving/giftplanning income taxes and capital gains taxes.

Their gift annuity helped Jim and Bunny achieve their goals. And we’re pleased to report that Bunny’s class did, too. THANKTHANK YOU!YOU!

W&M CELEBRATED AN UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI PARTICIPATION RATE OF 35,896 27.1% DONORS MADE A GIFT IN FISCAL YEAR 2015, INCLUDING A RECORD- BREAKING increase in graduate 16, 805 UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI 16% alumni support AND 4 , 152 GRADUATE ALUMNI

1,032 MEMBERS OF THE CLASS OF 2015 MADE A GIFT TO W&M (68% SENIOR CLASS PARTICIPATION RATE)

# OF REUNION AND CLASS AMBASSADORS ONE TRIBE ONE DAY SIGNED UP TO ENCOURAGE ENGAGEMENT CELEBRATED A AND PHILANTHROPY WITH THEIR CLASSMATES 528 RECORD- BREAKING

THIS FISCAL YEAR, 6,078 AN ASTOUNDING DONORS 7,320 $105.8 IN A SINGLE DAY INDIVIDUALS MADE THEIR FIRST- EVER GIFT TO W&M MILLION WAS RAISED IN SUPPORT MORE THAN OF THE UNIVERSITY 5,659 MADE A GIFT MEMBERS OF THE BELL SOCIETY TO SUPPORT celebrated new milestones in their SCHOLARSHIPS 1,377 consecutive years of giving to W&M AT W&M

ARTS & SCIENCES LAW SCHOOL RAYMOND A. MASON GRADUATE STUDENT RECORD- BREAKING YEAR SCHOOL OF BUSINESS PARTICIPATION RATE PERCENT DONORS PARTICIPATION 2,792 92 RATE IN 2015 UP FROM 7% IN FY14 3 L CLASS GIFT A 13 PERCENT INCREASE

RESULTS ARE REFLECTIVE OF FISCAL YEAR 2015 ( JULY 1 , 2014–JUNE 30, 2015) Fall 2015 VOLUME 81, NO. 1

FEATURES

22 ALUMNI FELLOWSHIP AWARDS With sharp research and great teaching, these ﬁve represent what sets William & Mary apart. By Kelley Freund and Ben Kennedy ’05

28 I NEED MY SPACE NASA’s Ellen Stofan ’83 searches the galaxy for life. By Ben Kennedy ’05

36 SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK Who is most likely to succeed? Ted Dintersmith ’74 reimagines education with a new documentary and book. By Kelley Freund

44 JUST FOR KICKS Jill Ellis ’88 helps lift the trophy at the Women’s World Cup. By Mitch Vander Vorst

IN EVERY ISSUE 4 Alumni Focus 6 From the Braferton

10 By & Large Find out what’s new at William & Mary, from a campus tour app to a blended course with Colonial Williamsburg. Plus: W&M sits high on Princeton Review rankings and Tribe Athletics looks to the future.

50 Tribe Have a beer, go ﬁshing and listen to some jazz with these alumni. Plus: Cast your vote for the Alumni Association Board of Directors.

65 Class Notes 94 In Memoriam

COVER ILLUSTRATION: MARIO WAGNER

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On July 14, 2015, the New Horizons probe ﬂew within 7,800 miles of Pluto, snapping photos like this one before continuing on into the far reaches of the Kuiper Belt. Find out why these photos are different than what NASA scientists expected on page 28.

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS Cynthia Satterwhite Jarboe ’77, President Glenn W. Craford ’77, Vice President Lydia R. Pulley ’85, Secretary Kevin “KT” J. Turner ’95, Treasurer David N. Kelley ’81, Immediate Past President ALUMNI FOCUS Christopher P. Adkins ’95, Ph.D. ’09; Molly F. Ashby ’81; Sandra Bowen ’63; J. Thomas Flesher ’73; Kathryn Hennecy Floyd ’05; Nicole Lewis ’03; Mark J. Linaugh ’84; Susan P. Manix ’79; David T. Scott ’93; Stephen S. Tang ’82; G. Wayne Woolwine ’61 William A. Armbruster ’57, Olde Guarde Council Angela A. Casolaro ’06, Chapter Presidents Council Alyssa W. Scruggs ’10, Young Guarde Council Dreaming Bigger Madeline M. Schultz ’16, Students for University Advancement

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Learn more at info.mason.wm.edu/businessanalytics COLL recognizes the necessity for more interdisciplinary work to understand multi-dimensional bodies of knowledge and then solve problems that can be tackled only by bringing together information and techniques from diferent fields of knowledge. Global and cross-cultural learning will be more prominent in COLL along with new emphasis on how to communicate efectively in writing and orally and how to conduct sophisticated research. COLL also ensures students will share the experience of taking required courses in the liberal arts throughout their four years at William & Mary. In recent years at W&M and other universities with high undergraduate admission standards, many entering freshman have FROM THE BRAFFERTON arrived with college credits from AP and IB exams equal to at least a semester of college. Students increasingly have used these credits to check of large parts of our required liberal arts curriculum. Wielding credits based on high school courses in this way also has enabled them Leading the Way in to satisfy general education requirements during their first two years of college instead of continuing to explore the liberal arts widely for all four years. COLL precludes this. While students will con- the Liberal Arts tinue to receive elective credit at W&M for AP and IB exams, COLL requirements must be satisfied with courses taken on our campus from our professors BY W. TAYLOR REVELEY III during all four years of the undergraduate experience. William & Mary President Several years of preparation by our faculty prepared us to launch COLL with the Class of 2019. Our strategic planning process identified the need to reconsider hile president of Princeton, Woodrow Wilson noted the general education curriculum put in place in 1993, and that reconsideration began in 2010. In December that changing an undergraduate curriculum is like moving a 2013 the faculty adopted COLL, which debuted this fall after two years of course development. graveyard – you never know how many friends the dead have In their first year, new students will take COLL 100 W courses focusing on “big ideas” or “great questions.” The until you try to move them. I know how he felt. Passions run high when the time faculty have already prepared so many marvelous COLL 100 courses that some have been transformed comes for the obligatory parts of a college curriculum to change. But once or into COLL 150 courses (first-year seminars). One COLL 100 course that got my attention, among many others, twice a generation, every school worth its salt must revisit its core or “general is Professor Paul Mapp’s “The Idea of the Liberal Arts Education.” Course materials will span 2,500 years — education” requirements to keep up with advances in from Socrates to Winston Churchill — and will involve knowledge, meet the changing needs of students in an students in the very kinds of conversations that pre- evolving society, and reafrm the enduring purpose of ceded the launch of the new curriculum. the sort of education it seeks to provide. Members of this As part of COLL, for the first time at William & fall’s freshman class at William & Mary will be the first Mary, each entering student had a shared intellec- to study the new College Curriculum (COLL) as part of tual experience before arriving on campus. All new their general education requirements, which comprise students were sent Island of the Colorblind by Oliver about 25 percent of the credits needed for graduation. Sacks to read over the summer. Faculty will include COLL will provide undergraduates with a sufciently the book in their class discussions and assignments. rigorous taste of various disciplines to enable them to We believe W&M’s new COLL curriculum will become familiar with diferent modes of analysis and provide our undergraduates during all four years of ways of solving problems. The way a historian seeks their time on campus with a powerful learning expe- to understand and explain the past, for instance, difers rience spread across a wide range of disciplines, with from how a physicist plumbs the mechanics of material heightened emphasis on critical thinking, research reality. Throughout there will be emphasis on teaching and writing skills, and problem solving in interdis- students to challenge assumptions, insist on evidence ciplinary and global contexts. With COLL William closely evaluated, and become comfortable exploring per- & Mary will continue to lead the way nationally for spectives diferent from those with which they started. undergraduate education in the liberal arts.

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WEDDING CEREMONIES • RECEPTIONS • R E H E A R S A L D I N N E R S

Congratulations to Bonnie Powell ’87 and Caesar Velasco III ‘98

Contact Cindy Gillman 757.221.1168 [email protected] wmalumnihouse.com

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INFOGRPAHIC: PHILPOT CHIRS

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FALL 2015 W&M ALUMNI MAGAZINE 9 A RESEARCH UNIVERSITY: Approximately 70 percent of William & Mary’s undergraduates participate in research-oriented classes. Many also co-author articles and present at conferences.

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RESEARCH IN ACTION Stewards of Know-How For undergraduates in Lisa Landino’s lab, chemistry is just the beginning

BY SARA PICCINI

ast fall, when Julia Zuercher ’17 began working in chemistry professor Lisa Landino’s L laboratory, she was initially tasked with puri- fying a compound needed for the lab’s research — studying the biochemical foundations of neurodegen- erative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. Zuercher and her labmate Molly McMahan ’15 tried one method, and then another. And yet another. “Nothing went like it was supposed to,” says Zuercher. “Just when we thought we had it, it didn’t work. It took us an entire semester to ﬁgure out the compound, but we got it. Now we have an ofcial PHOTO: ALLEN STEPHEN protocol.” “I tell my students there are two goals always: the ﬁrst is to learn, and the second is to get stuf done,” Landino says (revealing that she sometimes substi- tutes a more colorful word for “stuf”). As Landino’s undergraduate researchers have discovered, there

FALL 2015 W&M ALUMNI MAGAZINE 11 is as much to be learned through failure as there is stop learning, they never stop striving. That’s what through success. we try to transmit to the next generation.” Zuercher, who plans to practice veterinary med- Landino has received university funding through icine, saw the results first-hand this summer while both a Plumeri Award for Faculty Excellence, named for working for an equine vet. “The constant prob- donor Joseph J. Plumeri ’66, D.P.S. ’11, and her five-year BY&LARGE lem-solving skills I learned in the lab really helped. appointment to the Garrett-Robb-Guy Professorship. There would be four or five opinions of what might “It gives you the opportunity to think in a new direc- be wrong — the horses can’t tell you. You had to rule tion,” Landino says. “I’m talking about making con- them out systematically.” nections in my head that other people Approximately 70 percent of might not think of as related. I was on William & Mary’s undergraduates par- the review committee for the new College ticipate in research-oriented classes or Curriculum, and this is what we’re try- are guided by faculty mentors such as ing to encourage students to do. It’s what Landino, who holds the Garrett-Robb- keeps you energized.” Guy Professorship in Chemistry. “Here Landino’s work on neurodegener- an undergraduate can knock on a pro- ative diseases began when she was a fessor’s door and is highly likely to get graduate student at the University of a conversation with that person pretty Virginia. “I was working on a connec- quickly. You are rapidly absorbed into tion between Alzheimer’s and alumi- num,” she says. “The more I read about Alzheimer’s, the more intrigued I was. I also saw my great-uncle Art develop the disease, even though my grandfather and their other siblings did not. I was interested in the diet/lifestyle/disease connections.” “My post-doctoral work at Vanderbilt medical school was more about reactive oxygen species — those molecules produced on the path between oxygen and water,” Landino continues. “Essentially I combined work from both labs into what I do now.” At a basic level, Landino investigates oxidative damage to a protein called tubulin, which acts as a kind of scafolding within neurons — the cells that are the core components of our brain and central nervous system. When we breathe in oxygen, our bodies transform most of it into water. But some of that oxygen is transformed into so-called “free radicals” that are reactive, essentially stealing electrons from proteins in our cells. “With Alzheimer’s, where my research might play TEACHER’S the research process,” says Dennis Manos, CSX a role is in understanding how and why neurons first HELPERS:Chemistry Professor and vice provost for research. “I’ve studied start to die. Are they starving?” Landino says. “That professor Lisa Landino’s research focuses on neu- our peers a lot and I’ve looked hard for a place where is, they can’t metabolize glucose properly because rodegenerative diseases, I could say, ‘This is more or less identical to William the interactions between the enzymes that process such as Alzheimer’s. Her & Mary.’ I haven’t found it.” glucose and the microtubules made of tubulin are not

undergraduate students PHOTOS: TOP PHOTO: SALPUKAS; AT STEPHEN ALLEN LEFT: STEPHEN have made vital contribu- Manos notes that W&M undergraduates co- functioning properly. Not much is known about this, tions to her work. author journal articles, present at conferences, and although it is clear that tau, a protein that normally gain expertise in skills ranging from the interpreta- binds to microtubules, forms neurofibrillary tangles tion of original historical documents to the use of inside cells that we see in Alzheimer’s.” sophisticated lab equipment. Landino has received more than $850,000 in The intangible benefits are equally — if not more grant funding from the National Institutes of Health, — significant. “There is a thumping, glorious, vis- enabling her to employ three or four undergraduate ceral rush that comes from being the only person researchers full time in the summer. During the who knows something nobody else knows, and that academic year, she has had up to 10 undergraduates you are the steward of this piece of know-how for working in her lab, from freshmen to seniors, each some brief period of time,” Manos says. “It’s a feeling focusing on a crucial piece of research. that’s very difcult to achieve any other way — it’s “Working in any kind of lab is great for teaching like climbing to a mountaintop.” you the value of teamwork,” says Soni Patolia ’17, a As a faculty member, Landino is on a path of dis- double major in chemistry and film and media stud- covery along with her undergraduates, constantly ies. “Everyone is working on a diferent thing, but refining and rethinking her research. As Manos ultimately everyone wants the entire lab to succeed.” noted, “Our faculty are students as well — they never Patolia’s work involves growing yeast and extracting

12 W&M ALUMNI MAGAZINE WWW.WMALUMNI.COM “For our undergrads, it’s very important that they engage, which means to throw yourself into it, heart, mind, spirit, all of it, and do something as a consequence of being educated.” BY&LARGE tubulins from the cells. “Dr. Landino took a whole “For our undergrads, it’s very important that they day to guide me through the steps and then said, “OK, engage, which means to throw yourself into it, heart, now you’re on your own.” mind, spirit, all of it, and do something as a conse- As Zuercher adds: “To have that kind of trust from quence of being educated,” Dennis Manos says. a professor to be on your own, even though we’re “And the best of all possible worlds for undergrads undergrads, helps with confidence in all your classes.” exposes them to that continuum of individual curiosity Undergraduates have made vital contributions to up though and including working in multidisciplinary Landino’s recent work on reversing oxidative stress. teams, in order to solve the pressing problems that the “We’ve started studying how one protein can have some world agrees we need to get after now.” damage, but other proteins can repair it through what we call the redox reaction — oxidation reduction. They For more on the need for top-flight lab equipment and exchange electrons,” Landino says. “We’ve published a how you can help, see p. 21. paper on this using two purified enzymes. The positive/ negative interactions had been studied, but now we’ve identified this redox reaction, and so that’s new.” Landino’s students have found that they’ve learned life skills of value beyond the classroom, including time management. “She also taught us the importance of taking breaks,” Patolia says. “When the clock strikes 4 or 5, she says, ‘OK, you guys need to get out of here.’” And in a field where the gender gap is still very apparent, Landino serves as an important role model for her female students. For Elizabeth Johnson ’16, her work in the lab has elevated her to the role of teacher. Johnson, who is pursuing degrees in chemistry and biology, spent the summer in Landino’s lab conducting full- TECHNOLOGY time research on fluorescent molecules and how they attach to proteins. The lab had just acquired a new fluorescence instrument, which Johnson learned A WALK THROUGH how to master. “She knows how to use it better than I do,” Landino says. “Now I look at her as a teacher HISTORY for the other students, not only with this particular instrument, but with her other work.” William & Mary has launched a new campus walking tour that As Johnson discovered, teaching requires a diferent set of skills that complement her research, espe- allows guests to explore the people, places and events in the uni- cially breaking down a process into steps. “Things versity’s history. Developed by William & Mary’s Swem Library, become intuitive, so I’ll find myself going, ‘Oh wait, I have to teach that’ — it’s not a habit for them the TribeTrek is a free mobile app that puts the history of the nation’s way it is for me.” second-oldest institution of higher learning in the palm of your Like her labmates, Johnson is usually focused on the day-to-day problem-solving involved with her hands. • The app, which can be downloaded for smart phones and research. As Landino noted: “We’re chemists — what tablets at the App Store or Google Play, shares the history of campus most of us get excited about is understanding interactions at a really fundamental level.” But the bigger buildings, sculptures and other sites through photographs from the picture is always in view. library’s archives. There are 74 sites currently included on the tour, “Sometimes I’ll start reading a paper to look at a method, and I’ll think about the context. I’ll stop with more to come, ranging from the Wren Building and the Sunken and realize that I’m working on something that could Garden to the Campus Center and Zable Stadium. —TAMI BACK potentially lead to helping people, and that’s awesome,” Johnson says. “It’s definitely a big reason why I want to do science.”

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BY THE BOOK DRAWN TOGETHER An alumni couple creates unique characters for children’s books

BY KELLEY FREUND

very writer has a process. For Cece Bell ’92, “Nothing stuck at that point. It wasn’t until sopho- it’s walk, work, work, work, work, work. For her more year, when I joined the staf of the Flat Hat that Ehusband, Tom Angleberger ’92, it’s walk, walk, something stuck.” walk, work, walk, walk. Bell claims Angleberger was involved in a lot more The couple, who met their freshman year at entertaining activities at the College, while she was William & Mary while having dinner in the Caf with mainly focused on getting straight As. mutual friends, are authors/illustrators who each “Seriously, I would not have had some of the great

NATIONAL ACCLAIM: have experienced recent success with their children’s experiences I had at the College if weren’t for Tom,” PHOTOS COURTESY OF CECE BELL ’92 Bell’s book El Deafo books. From sock monkeys to origami Yoda, both Bell Bell says. “I would have spent all my time studying earned her a Newbery Honor and Angleberger and Angleberger have created a unique set of char- in Swem if I hadn’t met him, and I certainly wouldn’t landed on the New York acters to inspire kids. have been an art major — a change that made the rest Times bestseller list with While attending the College, both Bell and of my life a lot more fun.” his Origami Yoda series. Angleberger worked at the Flat Hat in the graphics When Bell began to study art, she started to department. (David Lasky ’90, their ﬁrst graphics think that children’s book illustration was the ulti- editor, went on to become an award-winning graphic mate dream. Despite being a former English major, novelist and colored one of Bell’s books, El Deafo). Bell wasn’t thinking about the writing part until she “I know Tom thought I was pretty weird,” Bell says. read somewhere that it was a little easier to get a

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children’s book published if you both wrote and illus- include Darth Paper Strikes Back!, The Secret of the trated the book. Fortune Wookiee and The Surprise Attack of Jabba The first books Bell wrote were her Sock Monkey the Puppett. series, inspired by her actual sock monkey, which “I was inspired by Fukiami Kawahata’s incredible she made in 1995 from a kit her grandmother had origami Yoda, which I have never been able to fold BY&LARGE given her. Sock Monkey Goes to Hollywood received because it is too difcult for me,” says Angleberger. an Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Gold Seal Award and “So I tried to make an easier one myself. I’m not nec- was named Quirkiest Picture Book by Publishers essarily all that creative. I’m more of a puzzle putter Weekly in 2003. together. I take all these little puzzle pieces — Yoda, Angleberger began wanting the same career middle school problems, Cheetos — and I fuss and when he saw how much his wife was enjoying hers. fuss with them until I fit them together.” At the time, he was working as a reporter for the Bell’s favorite book she’s done is a picture book, Roanoke Times. After the couple’s first child was Bee-Winged, which she considers to most closely born, Angleberger took some paternity leave and represent what she wants to be doing with the during the baby’s “down time,” wrote a book. “When medium. “But El Deafo of course is very meaningful my paternity leave was almost up,” Angleberger to me and has totally changed my life in more ways says, “I decided I would be leaving the paper instead than one,” Bell says. of returning, and I started writing children’s novels Bell grew up hearing-impaired after meningitis full time.” left her profoundly deaf at the age of 4. El Deafo Angleberger is most famous for his New York chronicles her hearing loss and her subsequent expe- Times bestselling Origami Yoda series, which fol- riences with the Phonic Ear, a very powerful — and lows the story of a young boy named Dwight who very awkward — hearing aid. Bell wanted to create creates an origami likeness of Yoda from the “Star something so that children who were deaf could see Wars” film franchise in order to give advice to other themselves positively represented in a book. She students. Some of the other books in the series uses the imagery of everyone illustrated as rabbits as a visual metaphor — when she was growing up, she felt like the only rabbit whose ears didn’t work. Many of the rabbits are based on real people in Bell’s life. The book received the Newbery Honor and the Eisner Award for Best Publication for Kids in 2015. Angleberger also bases many of his characters on real people, including himself in the Origami Yoda series. “There are two characters in the books who are very diferent from each other, but both represent two very diferent sides of me,” Angleberger says. Bell works in a Home Depot barn next to the family’s house. It’s finished on the inside with electricity and heat. She likes to keep work and home separate and needs the sensation of “going HIGH RANKINGS to work,” even if that just means taking a few steps from one building to the other. But Angleberger seems to be able to work anywhere. “I have a room ACCUMUL ATING in the house that is supposed to be my ofce, and sometimes I work there,” Angleberger says. “But ACCOLADES you can also find me working at the kitchen table, or on the front porch, or pausing during a long walk William & Mary is included in the Princeton Review’s annual to write something down.” guide to the nation’s best colleges, and it also landed on two of Both Bell and Angleberger claim that having a spouse in the same career field has its advantages. the book’s top-20 rankings. William & Mary is ninth on the list “It’s nice to celebrate little successes with someone of colleges where the students are most engaged in community who totally gets it and respects it,” says Angleberger. “We also get to collaborate sometimes, which is fun.” service and 17th on the list of best college libraries. The top-20 “I love the fact that I can moan and groan about rankings were based on surveys sent to 136,000 students at the some of the more frustrating aspects of my job, and Tom totally gets it,” Bell says. “Sometimes things can 380 colleges in the book in 2014-15 and/or the previous two get very annoying — deadlines that you might not be school years. —UNIVERSITY RELATIONS STAFF able to meet, editorial decisions that you might not agree with — and it’s so nice to be able to talk to your spouse about the ugly font decision on the cover and not have him roll his eyes at you.”

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GAME CHANGER: Tribe basketball player Brooke Stewart ’16 was able to attend William & Mary thanks to a scholarship she received. Athletics hopes to boost endowed funding for such scholarships in the future.

MORE POLICY FOR THE PUBLIC

Beginning next fall, the William & Mary Master of Public Policy Program will offer an international development and policy track in addition to its existing domestic policy offer- ings. The new program was ofﬁcially launched PAYING IT FORWARD at a special event in Washington, D.C. in July. “Broadening the scope of this program COMPETITIVE EXCELLENCE will allow us to better prepare our students Tribe Athletics looks to the future for careers in public policy formulation and evaluation,” said Sarah BY KELLEY FREUND Stafford, director of the

Public Policy Program. PHOTO COURTESY OF TRIBE ATHLETICS —SUZANNE SEURATTAN ccording to senior Tribe basketball cation in Williamsburg,” Stewart says. “It gives me player Brooke Stewart ’16, her time at Wil- the opportunity to do what I love — play basketball Aliam & Mary has molded her into the person at the highest level, and get a great education.” she is today. It has given her access to a great aca- For many William & Mary students like Stewart, demic experience and the chance to be a part of the athletics is an important part of their college experi- special community that makes up William & Mary. ence. From hard work to teamwork, student-athletes But it wasn’t easy for Stewart to get here. “I am the learn as much on the ﬁeld as they do of. The Tribe youngest of four children and my scholarship was Athletics Department wants to make sure this con- the key factor in my being able to continue my edu- tinues, but it won’t be easy.

18 W&M ALUMNI MAGAZINE WWW.WMALUMNI.COM According to William & Mary Director of Athletics facilities, finance, human resources, admissions and Terry Driscoll, there have been changes to the land- financial aid, marketing and media, and fan experience. scape of college athletics in recent years and financial The report is about being strategic with limited pressures have escalated. Tribe Athletics currently resources, mapping a vision for the future and afrm- sponsors more varsity sports than any other mem- ing William & Mary’s identity as a university where ber of the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA). And athletes can be exceptional students and be a part of BY&LARGE while William & Mary has won more CAA champion- a championship experience. ships since the conference’s inception than any other “William & Mary ranks among the nation’s elite school, that success comes at a price. The athletic fee academic institutions,” Driscoll says. “Tribe Athletics paid by each William & Mary student to help fund should aspire to the same level of excellence. The varsity athletics is already the fourth-highest among time has come to define a vision for the future and all public universities in Virginia. Last summer, a move confidently towards it.” working group led by Driscoll set out to outline a The report, titled “A Championship Experience roadmap of success for Tribe Athletics in the face of for Every Student-Athlete and Every Fan,” details these pressures. Their report was released in April. funding needs for scholarships, operating expenses The Committee on Competitive Excellence, which and facility improvements as well as enhancements includes staf, alumni and faculty representatives, eval- to streamline current policies and practices, includ- uated a number of aspects of Tribe Athletics, including ing improving the game-day experience for fans.

SPEED QUEEN

Runner Emily Stites ’16 finished third in the nation in the 10,000m at the track and field NCAA Championships in June. Stites, who was running in her seventh-straight 2015 COACH OF THE YEAR NCAA finals dating back over the last three years, finished MATT CRISPINO ’02 in 33:26.15, for the sixth-fastest time in Director of Swimming Matt Crispino ’02 has led his alma mater to perhaps its best three- school history; Stites now has four of year run in the last 40 years as he enters his eighth season at the helm of the Tribe men’s and those top six races, women’s swimming teams. • After seven complete seasons, Crispino is the second-winningest and is just the third woman in school coach in program history for both the men (34 wins) and the women (52 wins). • Crispino history to finish in the returned to his alma mater in 2007 after five years in the assistant coaching ranks at Colgate top three at national University and West Point. Directly responsible for the sprint corps at Colgate, Crispino saw collegiate championships. She also his athletes race to 49 lifetime-best performances, including four school-records. At West earned first-team Point, Crispino helped the Corps of Cadets to a pair of second-place showings at the Patriot All-American honors, her program-record League Championships. • The captain and Most Valuable Swimmer of the 2001-02 Tribe men’s seventh All-America swimming team, Crispino helped set the school record in the 800 free relay as a freshman title, and is just the sixth W&M athlete at the CAA Championships. Crispino received his bachelor’s of arts in government from the to earn All-America College in 2002, and his master’s in physical education from Florida State in 2003. In July honors in three different seasons in one 2008, he married Liz Koch ’03, former Tribe swimmer. The couple resides in Williamsburg school year. with their two-and-a-half year-old daughter, Lydia Grace. —TRIBE ATHLETICS —JACOB SKIPPER ’05

FALL 2015 W&M ALUMNI MAGAZINE 19 A key part of meeting these needs is an increase in wider aisles, renovation of existing restrooms and addi- private philanthropy. tional facilities, improved egress lighting, an upgraded “Already, donors to W&M athletics have been far sound system, additional concession and retail loca- more generous than those of any other CAA school,” tions, and a new entrance and ticketing location. says William & Mary President Taylor Reveley. “To In May, Athletics announced the construction of BY&LARGE do what’s sketched in the report will require an even the Plumeri Indoor Baseball Practice Facility, thanks more serious commitment from alumni and alumnae to a gift by Joseph Plumeri ’66, D.P.S. ’11. “The prac- who believe strongly in the value and potential of tice center will greatly enhance our player devel- Tribe athletics.” opment opportunities and will allow us to practice The past year has already seen many such alumni more efciently in all weather conditions,” says head step up. Last August, two $6 million gifts, one from coach Brian Murphy. “This commitment to Tribe Hunter J. Smith ’51 and the other from James W. ’62, Baseball will also help us continue to attract quality J.D. ’64, LL.D. ’00 and Frances G. McGlothlin ’66, student-athletes, as it is one more reason why it is enabled the university to move forward with con- great to be a part of Tribe Baseball.” struction to enhance the 79-year-old Zable Stadium. Also this past year, Sue Gerdelman ’76 and hus- This year, John Dawkins ’51 donated another $2 mil- band John ’75 made a $3 million commitment to lion for the renovation. support Athletics, including a football scholarship “The planned changes are designed to enhance endowment and funds for the Tribe Club. An anon- what is already a beautiful facility,” Smith says. “It ymous donor contributed $1.6 million to Athletics. will be wonderful to watch this campus treasure To help attract and retain promising student-ath- transform into a state-of-the-art gathering place letes in the Tribe football program, Rich ’65 and where fans enjoy coming together as a community Carole Kraemer established a $1.2 million scholar- to support William & Mary football.” ship endowment in May. They created the endow- Once complete, the renovated stadium will have ment to honor two former William & Mary football improved safety and accessibility features including players who have been among the most loyal Tribe fans over the last several decades — Richard E. Korns ’68 and Michael G. Weaver ’66, M.Ed. ’70. “Dick and Mike came to William & Mary because a football scholarship was ofered to them,” says Kraemer. “During their time at the College and after graduation, football has always been an important EDUCATION IDEAS part of their lives. I am happy to recognize their commitment to education and William & Mary.” BLENDED HISTORY The Kraemers’ gift announcement came on the heels of Athletics receiving a $3.5 million commitment from Terry Thompson ’67 for student-athlete The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation’s ENLIGHT online learn- scholarships. A significant portion of this commit- ing initiative and the William & Mary School of Education collab- ment supports scholarships for student-athletes par- ticipating in the women’s basketball program. It was orated this past summer to ofer the blended course “Teaching the largest gift ever given to women’s basketball from with Exhibits in the History/Social Studies Classroom.” The a single donor. “I hope my gift inspires other former players to course provided an introduction to using museum exhibits in take the time to learn what the needs truly are and the classroom as an efective interdisciplinary and interactive find a way to make their own impact.” learning strategy and ofered students the option of earning one Thompson served on the Committee of Competitive Excellence. During her time helping to to three graduate credits. The format for the course included shape the report, she gained a much deeper under- project-based instruction on planning, designing and building standing of the need for increased support for the Tribe Athletics Program. It also reafrmed her orig- classroom museum exhibits; creation of resources for imme- inal belief that, at its core, William & Mary continues diate classroom implementation on using exhibit concepts for to do athletics “the right way.” “I have always believed that athletics is a core discovery education; panel discussions with museum experts part of William & Mary’s liberal arts mission,” says and School of Education professors; and the opportunity to Thompson. “To me, academics and athletics go hand- in-hand and I am passionate about seeing both areas tour Colonial Williamsburg and William & Mary’s museums and of our university continue to move forward at the interact with staf. —COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG STAFF highest level. We are not only going to need continued, and improved, support from all our longtime athletics donors, but also find ways to educate and motivate a new generation of donors.”

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AFA 2015 Every year, the Alumni Association honors a select group of outstanding young faculty members. We hope you’ll agree that these associate professors reﬂect William & Mary at its very best. Introducing: Our 2015 Alumni Fellowship Award Recipients

PROFILES BY KELLEY FREUND AND BEN KENNEDY ‘05 || PHOTOGRAPHED BY ADAM EWING

22 W&M ALUMNI MAGAZINE WWW.WMALUMNI.COM TOOLS OF THE TRADE: Han’s contemporary Apple computer is connected to an old-school IBM keyboard. “I’m a fetishist for old technology, probably like a lot of other historians.” It’s all about the mechanical, spring-loaded keys. Eric Han ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF HISTORY

Budget showdowns, con- discord and war between gressional power struggles the two nations. Han helps and controversial national his students draw parallels symbols are some of Eric with other long-standing Han’s research interests — it’s cultural conflicts. just that he’s looking back “We can understand that into the history of East Asia to everyone has their subjec- study them. tive perspective: that Japan “Examining these historical needs its own view and that developments in East Asia the American South needs allows us to test the universal- its own view,” he says. “We ity of a lot of our own beliefs accept that to a certain and our own positions,” he degree — that everyone has says. When the Japanese a right to have their own parliament sought greater perspective — but we can’t political influence in the coexist in the world without 1890s, they used govern- shared understanding about ment shutdowns and budget what states should do; how threats to do it. “You do see to cooperate and promote very interesting repetitions of trade; how individuals similar political strategies.” should be treated. We have Broadly, Han’s work exam- to have these shared rules ines questions on national and norms.” And as he tackles the com- 180 DEGREES plex issues surrounding his As an undergrad at Prince- own background, he helps ton, Han started the school’s his students answer their own first student anime club and personal questions. earned his bachelor’s — in “I can make my research molecular biology. useful to them or provide some insights about how and individual identity in we live in the world,” Han China and Japan. As a Chi- says. “I can bring from the nese-American, Han taught answers I’ve received some English in Japan in the 1990s type of insights for them. and was intrigued by the This is more or less how Chinese communities there, I approach the broader given the two countries’ long goals of the humanities.” and contentious history. Blending his own research Since then, he earned a with his teaching pursuits Ph.D. at Columbia and has makes William & Mary the been looking at the chal- perfect fit. He says, “William lenges facing Sino-Japanese & Mary is a wonderful reconciliation ever since. institution because it allows After a brief moment of pan- you to develop your own Asian solidarity in the late approach, because so much 19th century, much of the value is placed on teaching 20th has been marked with and research.”

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FAVORITE CAMPUS SPOT Swem Library. “What is better than getting lost in the stacks, surrounded by books? There is always something new that piques my interest.”

Molly Swetnam-Burland ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF CLASSICAL STUDIES

Students who went on last undergraduate student. Her teacher, historian and an double majors, internships — AFTER CLASS year’s study abroad trip to research is important to her actress. “I guess that my and they are really cool and “I like to jog, Italy with Molly Swetnam- not only because she has an current job rolls a lot of interesting people.” spend time with Burland might call her a interest in how the Romans aspects of this into one, Swetnam-Burland recently my family, knit really fast walker. But that’s lived, but she believes this since teaching in college completed a book about and cook … and just because she’s so enthu- type of research can beneﬁt requires a bit of showman- “Egyptianizing” motifs in I’ve been known siastic about her research her students as well. ship and lots of creativity.” Roman material culture, to binge-watch a and wanted to pack as much “I love teaching about the Swetnam-Burland joined which explores how, when series on Netﬂix.” material as possible in the Romans because we must put the W&M faculty in 2008. the Romans annexed Egypt in few days the group had in different pieces of evidence “I’ve taught at several differ- 30 B.C., they began not only Rome and Pompeii. together, like a puzzle, to truly ent institutions, and this is my to import Egyptian artifacts to Swetnam-Burland teaches understand them — combining favorite. W&M students are Italy, but started to emulate in the College’s Classi- art, inscriptions, ancient texts, smart, diligent and endlessly these styles in their own art. cal Studies Department, each offering a little bit of the curious.” While on leave this “I’m proud of the writing including classes on Roman big picture. I think that looking past year, Swetnam-Burland I’ve done, the travels I’ve archaeology and art, the cit- at the world in that way, took an Italian class at the taken, the awards I’ve gotten. ies of Rome and Pompeii and balancing complementary College and she enjoyed But mostly, I think I’m proud Latin language and literature. material, is good for students having the chance to get to that I continue to learn more She has been interested in whatever their major is.” know a group of students about the ancient world Roman material culture (and At various points in her from a new perspective. every day. I love reading Pompeii especially) since life, Swetnam-Burland “Our students juggle a lot new things and hope to taking coursework as an wanted to be a writer, — extracurricular activities, remain curious.”

24 W&M ALUMNI MAGAZINE WWW.WMALUMNI.COM CHEMICAL LINKS Jonathan Scheerer Took his entire lab to a ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRY conference in Maryland, where they played Thanks to a two-year-old Students relish the miniature golf to unwind. in his house, Jonathan chance to do this sort “I don’t know if minigolf of unique research, but Scheerer is expanding his is the way to flesh understanding of chemistry. Scheerer values the “You never realize how mentoring opportunity just out the best in everyone,” much chemistry nerd gear as much. he says with a smile. is out there until you have “William & Mary is really a child,” he says. “Other perfect for me in that it has people think that your one foot in the traditional child should have a lot of liberal arts, but it’s also these chemistry bibs and research-active,” he says. periodic table onesies.” “At least for chemistry, we For Scheerer, an associ- don’t have a Ph.D. program. ate professor of chemistry, That’s a unique niche when it’s fun to watch young you try to do research people — undergraduates, with almost exclusively in this case — get excited undergraduates.” about science research. “Even before I got here, THE RIGHT EQUIPMENT there was one student who As a Columbia summer re- was emailing me about searcher, he sat at a “desk” what research I was going that was just a door laid to be doing,” he says. “So across two filing cabinets. they’re certainly passion- They lef the knob in. ate about getting involved in these things, even Scheerer’s though they’re 18 years experience as an old. They’ll bring so much undergraduate enthusiasm that it’s fun to at Beloit College direct them in a way that in Wisconsin fits in with scholarship.” continues to inform The Scheerer Lab his perspective focuses on the study of bio- on education. chemical products found in He can easily nature. While examining, draw connections reproducing and then between where modifying compounds he started and originally produced by where he is today. fungi or plants, Scheerer “It made a and his students are also big difference exploring possible thera- for me in terms of peutic applications. involvement and all “We’re taking some- kinds of learning. thing that is produced in I saw wonder and nature and trying to make amazement and it de novo from simplified great passion in a lot building blocks that you can of different subjects. essentially order,” he says. I don’t know that I “How do you build that would have gotten same structure, even though that same exposure in it’s produced by a fungus in a larger state institution, so nature? How do you make it sent me on the path of it in the laboratory? This being more of a lifelong gives you the opportunity to learner,” he says. “I guess ask many broad questions you’d say that’s coming around that.” back full-circle now.”

FALL 2015 W&M ALUMNI MAGAZINE 25 ROOTS “I think students are surprised that I grew up on a AFA small farm in Minnesota. I don’t have what they perceive as a Minnesota accent. Not everyone in 2015 Minnesota talks like they do in ‘Fargo.’” Jeremy Stoddard ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF EDUCATION

School of Education profes- able to take political action sor Jeremy Stoddard has a as citizens using these media piece of paper thumbtacked forms?” to a board in his office. It’s a Stoddard has also been student evaluation form that involved in studies regarding a school principal filled out, the impact and validity of assessing one of Stoddard’s standardized testing. What students. At the bottom it Stoddard and his col- reads, “I hired her!” leagues have found is that For Stoddard, the fact teachers who are engaging that his students are able to their students in things like make an immediate impact higher-level thinking, inquiry in schools is the accomplish- and writing have students ment he’s most proud of in who do as well or better his nine years of teaching at than those who teach to William & Mary. “I feel very the test. fortunate to work with the “You can still teach in more students that we have here at authentic ways, where kids William & Mary. They come will learn things they actually here because they want to be need out in the world. When challenged and they want to you come out of school, work hard and engage.” nobody asks you to take a Stoddard came to William & Mary, not only EXTRACURRICULAR for the teaching-research Stoddard is a mem- mix, but because a lot of ber of the Colonial his work is in history edu- Ale Smiths & Keggers cation. “It’s sort of a history (CASK), a local home geek’s paradise.” brewing club. Stoddard’s research focuses on how students learn standardized test.” about history and politics Stoddard directed the through media. He realized Cambridge Study Abroad how much teachers’ political Program in 2009 and has views came into the decisions taught in two D.C. Summer of what media they engage Institutes. Last year, Stoddard students with. “More recently, received a Reves Faculty I’ve been interested in how Fellowship, taking two that’s affected all the money graduate students to Singa- going into politics — a lot of it’s pore to complete a study been in media strategy, both comparing Virginia teacher news and advertising. How development programs to do we prepare kids coming those in Singapore. out of high school for that “These types of experi- media-rich political envi- ences have made William ronment? How do we help & Mary unique. Especially them critically filter political at research universities, you messages they find in media, don’t always get to cross as well as prepare them to be into other departments.”

26 W&M ALUMNI MAGAZINE OCCUPATIONAL HAZARDS “There have been several times when I’ve done demonstrations in class on how to make a stone tool and I’ve cut myself. I’ve also stepped on a cobra in the ﬁeld.” Neil Norman ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ANTHROPOLOGY

When Neil Norman was a else, but these places were kid, he wanted to grow up also very vibrant cities to be an architect. But when in their own right. What he got to college, he quickly I’ve been trying to do is discovered that he didn’t like tease out the political and the advanced mathematics economical dynamics of the courses required for the field. slave trade, but also look “I kind of fell into archaeol- at how rural people related ogy because it’s a way to to urban people.” This past do architecture in reverse. summer, Norman shifted the We’re thinking about the location of his work, doing way in which structures fall similar research in Zanzibar apart and what’s left.” in East Africa. Norman serves as the “I think we can learn a coordinator for the College’s lot from how and why cities concentration in African fall apart,” Norman says. studies and teaches African “Archaeology is a good archaeology and African sounding board, and also diaspora. His research it’s a way to look at where focuses on the nature of cit- we might be going instead ies: how and why they came of just where we’ve been.” to be, who lived in them, and Norman enjoys the free- how they relate to rural com- doms that are associated munities. “I’ve always been with being a professor. After fascinated with cities mainly he finished his undergrad, because I’m from a rural area he worked as professional of south Georgia,” Norman archaeologist, which meant says. “So I always looked at he had to dig exactly where cities from the outside, while other people told him to it seems like most historians dig. “Now I get to choose and archaeologists look at the places and topics that I rural areas from the outside.” want to address,” Norman Norman’s work has been says. “And there’s a mix of concentrated on the 16th different genres — I get to through 19th centuries in teach, I get to do historical West Africa, and while research and I get to do Williamsburg is thousands field excavations. I like to of miles away, the slave jump around between all trade entwines the history of those different domains, and the two areas. Norman has I wouldn’t be able to do that been looking at a series of if I wasn’t associated with palace complexes in West the university.” Africa that were all involved NO. 1 DAD in the transatlantic slave Has two kids. “That’s trade. “There were places basically my spare time where approximately 1 — playing in the park million people were sold into with them, enjoying a slavery,” Norman says. “That not-so-quiet afernoon. often consumes everything

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NASA Chief Scientist ELLEN STOFAN ’83 Searches the OGalaxy for Life M

BY BEN KENNEDY ’05 FALL 2015 WE&M ALUMNI MAGAZINE 29 PHOTO BY MELISSA GOLDEN of methane on Titan, a place that “stole [her] heart” THERE IS NO NIGHT ON THIS during the project. She was appointed chief scientist at NASA in 2013, where she leads the science arm of PLANET. THE SUN NEVER GOES the agency, advises NASA’s administrator and corre- sponds with other federal organizations. She’s been DOWN. IT HANGS IN THE SKY, enjoying the ride ever since. “I like to talk to people about what we’re doing, CHURNING OUT A POWERFUL, because in general they get really excited about it,” she says. “A lot of people don’t know what we’re accomplishing here for them every day, whether it’s POSSIBLY DANGEROUS MAGNETIC studying this planet and trying to help people here on Earth or searching for life across the solar system, LIGHT SHOW, EVERY DAY, ALL it’s something that engages the public.” Stofan’s father worked at the Lewis Research YEAR. THE YEAR IS 35 DAYS LONG. Center in Ohio when she was a child, working to min- imize “fuel slosh” that might throw a rocket of-bal- This planet is tidally locked in orbit with its star, ance. There’s a picture of him from 1960 that sits in somewhere in the constellation Lyra. One hemi- her ofce today. sphere receives all of the sun’s heat and light, and “He actually was a rocket scientist,” she says. “He the other is always cold and dark. At least, we think was a rocket engineer that helped develop some of the so. And then there’s the chance that changes in atmo- early rockets — actually, some of the first landers to the spheric pressure could create a runaway feedback surface of Mars. So I grew up on the space program.” loop that renders the whole place uninhabitable. It’s clear that Stofan gets most excited when Mars But if humans ever need to escape our changing, comes up. The worst-case scenario for Kepler 438b complex planet, it’s still the most Earth-like destina- — the one where a small pressure change triggers tion we’ve found so far. It’s just a shame it might take a climate-destroying catastrophe — is what some two million years to get there. think already happened on the Red Planet. But that doesn’t rule out the idea that Mars once was home to SIGNS OF LIFE life; it does have polar ice caps, after all. At a panel The planet in question is known as Kepler 438b, an discussion at NASA in April, Stofan gave her own exoplanet huddled close to its red dwarf star, about thoughts on the topic. 470 light years away. In January, NASA announced “I speculated that within 10 years we would find indi- it as one of the newest exoplanets discovered by its cations — strong indications — of life and that within 30 Kepler Space Observatory. If 1.0 is the best score on years, we would find definitive evidence,” she remem- the Earth Similarity Index (e.g. Earth itself), 438b bers. “When we go to Mars with the rovers we have, rates at 0.88. Even if the forbidding hypothetical we’re looking for indirect signs: things in the chemistry description above holds true, right now, it’s the best of the rocks, things in the chemistry of the atmosphere we’ve got. That’s the bad news. that might be consistent with life. We’re already on that The good news, according to NASA Chief Scientist path and I think within 10 years we’ll have even better Ellen Stofan ’83, is that we’re just getting started. evidence. What we’re really looking for is that fossil evi- 438b is only one of 4,000 exoplanets identified so far. dence of life on Mars and I do think that’s likely going to “Kepler is looking at a really tiny portion of the take humans on the surface of Mars.” night sky,” says Stofan, “so those 4,000 planets are Specifically, field geologists who are today in coming from an area you could basically put your grade school. PHOTO: ROBERTS CARTER OF THE EASTBAY SOCIETY ASTRONOMICAL KEPLER MISSION: thumb over and cover up. “It’s going to take people like me who had a great Designed to survey a portion of our region of “That’s telling us that almost every star in the field geology training at William & Mary to be that the Milky Way to discover night sky has a planetary system around it, and that astronaut of the future,” she says. “Usually I first ask Earth-size extrasolar just blows my mind.” [kids] how many of them want to go to Mars and usu- planets and estimate how many of the billions of Stofan is a planetary geologist who took her ally about half raise their hand. Then when I let them stars in our galaxy have William & Mary geology degree to Brown University know that they actually are the cohort that is going such planets, Kepler’s for a master’s and a doctorate and then to Pasadena, to be the generation of Mars astronauts, literally they sole instrument is a pho- tometer that continually Calif., for more than a decade at the Jet Propulsion gasp and giggle and start talking.” monitors the brightness Laboratory (JPL). There, Stofan worked on the NASA’s plans to get humans to Mars are already of over 145,000 main Magellan spacecraft’s mission to Venus and a number underway, even if those humans are currently still sequence stars in a fixed of other projects as chief scientist for the NASA New learning how to tie their shoes. By 2025, the agency field of view. This data is transmitted to Earth, Millennium Program. After JPL, she joined Proxemy will have captured an asteroid into orbit with the then analyzed to detect Research in Maryland, where she worked on the Moon and sent humans to study it. In the 2030s, a periodic dimming caused Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn and led its radar rocket will propel humans to the surface of Mars. by extrasolar planets that cross in front of mapping of the surface of Titan. Cassini-Huygens Both of these missions will make use of a vehicle their host star. found cryovolcanoes and lakes fed by aquifers full NASA is calling Orion. Orion is a capsule reminiscent

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SECOND HOMES Five Kepler ﬁndings that might just look a little like Earth.

LIKELY EXOPLANET Kepler Gliese KOI- Kepler Kepler DESIGNATION 438b 667 Cc 3010.01 442b 62e

ESI RATING 0.88 0.84 0.84 0.83 .83 (Earth Similarity Index)

CONSTELLATION Lyra Scorpius none Lyra Lyra

APPROXIMATE 470ly 23.62ly 1250ly 112 0 l y 1200ly DISTANCE FROM EARTH (in light years)

Kepler Field Of View Deneb

Vega

LYRA

CYGNUS

DELPHINUS

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FALL 2015 W&M ALUMNI MAGAZINE 31 “It’s going to of the Apollo command module, with room for four done on the ISS is instrumental in determining the take people like astronauts instead of the familiar three. It is capable of efects that extended spaceflight has on the human 21 days of active flight and six months in inactive mode, body — critical for the Orion missions to come. me who had during which the astronauts will live in a connected “Once the country sees [American manned a great field habitat module. In December 2014, the first unmanned launches] happening again, once they realize all geology train- launch test of Orion sent the pod 3,000 miles above the the amazing research that we’re doing on the ing at William Earth’s surface and splashed down of the coast of San International Space Station and sending humans & Mary to be Diego. A further series of test launches will prepare beyond low Earth orbit … I think we’re going to con- NASA and its astronauts for the asteroid mission, and tinue to see the bipartisan support,” she says. that astronaut then for the 21-month round trip to Mars. But NASA is not just going to sit around until of the future.” If it all sounds a little farfetched, consider this: Orion launches in the 2020s. Stofan’s scientists are last fiscal year, Congress authorized $150 million working as hard as they can right now, only remotely. more for Orion than NASA had requested. And it’s not your typical telecommute. “NASA has an estimated 4-to-1 return for every dollar invested,” says Stofan. “The technologies that THE GOD OF THE UNDERWORLD What you see is not always what you get when it comes to planetary geology. In 1877, Giovanni Schiaparelli discovered what he thought were canals on the surface of Mars — probably built by some alien intelligence. By the time Viking 1 made the first landing on Mars in 1976, it was clear that the planet was cold and arid. The canals were optical illusions, shadows alongside mountain ridges. Viking 1, in turn, uncovered an apparent “Face” on Mars, which was debunked by better cameras aboard Mars Global Surveyor in 1998. In July, the Mars Curiosity rover spotted what some called a female figure overlooking the vehicle from a distance. Except at that scale, she could only have been a few centimeters tall. So when astronomers first observed Pluto in 1930, they saw a tiny dead rock on the furthest reaches of the solar system. In some ways, they were wrong. It just took the better part of a century — and a probe called New Horizons — to gather the details. “We’ve just found mountains on Pluto,” Stofan says. “Pluto should not have — nobody predicted mountains on Pluto. So we’re missing something.” “[Doctors] will never understand the progression of a disease like cancer unless [they] have lots and lots of patients,” she says. “For a geologist or an atmo- ALL ABOARD: NASA have been ofered from NASA are a huge investment spheric scientist, when you have one planet to study, astronauts step into in the U.S. economy. That’s also something we’re you make models based on that planet. But until you the Orion crew module hatch during a series of incredibly proud of.” can go run your model on another planet with diferent spacesuit tests conducted Although NASA budgets still aren’t what they conditions … you really have a limited view.” in 2013. The module will were in the Space Race heyday, Stofan looks on the Pluto was the last major body in our solar system serve as both transport to receive a visitor from Earth, completing a mission and a home for astronauts bright side. during future long-dura- “You know, when budgets get tight, you get NASA began in 1962 (see “House Calls”). And while tion missions. more innovative,” she says. “You get more creative. some may question the wisdom of spending $700 Technology gets better every year, so we’re able to million to visit a non-planet, Stofan is confident that take those advances in technology and use innovation by studying our neighbors, there are things to learn and creativity to accomplish the big science that we about our own planet in the process. NASA expected want to accomplish, no matter what our budget is.” Pluto to look like Earth’s moon: flat, cratered and

The most immediate step for human exploration, geologically dead. Instead, they found mountains PHOTO: NASA/BILL STAFFORD says Stofan, is a return to launching astronauts from that rival some of the Rockies and a planetary core U.S. soil. By working with private companies like that was active much more recently than previously Boeing and SpaceX, NASA hopes to end American thought. There may even be ice. For a scientist, being reliance on the Russian Soyuz program to ferry proven wrong can be one of the most fun experiences. astronauts to and from the International Space “The day after we got some of the images back, Station (ISS). Crews will continue their pioneering and the images hadn’t gone out to the public, we were work on the station until at least 2024. The work having a senior leadership meeting here at NASA

32 W&M ALUMNI MAGAZINE WWW.WMALUMNI.COM HOUSE CALLS July 14, 1965 NASA’s visits to our planetary neighbors MARS CRAFT: Mariner 4 FINDINGS: Revealed Dec. 14, 1962 an arid, seemingly VENUS dead planet CRAFT: Mariner 2 CURRENT STATUS: Aug. 25, 1989 FINDINGS: Discov- derelict in orbit NEPTUNE ered very little or no CRAFT: Voyager 2 magnetic field FINDINGS: Detected CURRENT STATUS: an atmosphere made derelict in orbit of methane CURRENT STATUS: still Sept. 1, 1979 functioning, approx- SATURN imately 10 billion CRAFT: Pioneer 11 miles from Earth FINDINGS: Discov- First humans, ered new moons ca. 198,000 B.C. Dec. 4, 1973 CURRENT STATUS: EARTH JUPITER last contact Sept. July 14, 2015 CURRENT STATUS: CRAFT: Pioneer 10 30, 1995 PLUTO Habitable. FINDINGS: First Reclassified as a up-close photos of dwarf planet on Aug. the Great Red Spot 24, 2006 March 29, 1974 CURRENT STATUS: Jan. 24, 1986 CRAFT: New Horizons MERCURY final transmission Jan. URANUS FINDINGS: Found a CRAFT: Mariner 10 23, 2003 CRAFT: Voyager 2 geologically active FINDINGS: Mapped 45% FINDINGS: new moons and dwarf planet with an of Mercury’s surface an unusual magnetic field atmosphere CURRENT STATUS: derelict CURRENT STATUS: in orbit around the Sun still transmitting data

headquarters. I showed the group one of the images exoplanets to only the more Earth-like (see “Second “A lot of peo- and got up and was talking about it,” she says. “When Homes”). And soon, Kepler is going to get some help. ple don’t know you put it up there and say, ‘this is nothing like we “In a couple years, we’re going to launch another thought it would be,’ everyone gets excited.” telescope, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, what we’re And even though Pluto was reclassiﬁed as a which we don’t like to say,” Stofan says. “We call it accomplish- “dwarf planet” by the International Astronomical TESS for short.” ing here every Union in 2006, it doesn’t dampen the excitement. TESS will be looking for exoplanets closer to day, whether NASA is already amidst the Dawn probe’s mission Earth than Kepler, and in a wider scope — it will it’s studying to Ceres, another dwarf planet in the asteroid belt. take much, much more than a thumbprint to block “They’re cool things,” says Stofan of dwarf planets. out its range. NASA expects TESS to spend two years this planet and “They have a lot to tell us about how planets form and searching more than 500,000 stars for exoplanets trying to help change over time — so we need to explore everything.” of all types. Then, in 2018, the James Webb Space people here To that end, the Kepler mission represents the fur- Telescope will launch as a successor to the Hubble. on Earth or thest and most extreme reaches of NASA’s planetary “James Webb will start looking at the atmo- searching for exploration. The Kepler Space Observatory uses the spheres of those planets around other stars,” says life across the transit method to measure how the light from a dis- Stofan. “And that’s where it gets really interesting. tant star changes as a possible exoplanet passes in “Then you can look at the gases that are in the solar system.” front of it. The bigger the planet, the larger the efect planet’s atmosphere. Is there water vapor? Is there on the observed brightness. And as the edge of an nothing? Is there carbon dioxide, or gases that we exoplanet’s atmosphere begins to travel in front of would associate with life here on Earth?” the star, Kepler can detect what sorts of elements Any of those gases would be indicative of a poten- are likely to be present in its atmosphere. This helps tially life-bearing planet. But Stofan still thinks it will

ILLUSTRATION: NASA ILLUSTRATION: NASA narrow down the list of more than 4,000 likely be several decades before we have deﬁnitive proof

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Columbia Glacier, Alaska July 22, 2013

34 W&M ALUMNI MAGAZINE WWW.WMALUMNI.COM of life on another world. So alongside all this deep “I think the excitement of discovery is for every- space research, she says, NASA is also concerned body,” Stofan says. “We’re trying to find ways to with the one planet where we know for sure that life bring more people in.” is abundant: Earth. Once a month, Stofan takes a trip to an elementary or middle school as outreach to students, which GOING UP TO LOOK DOWN she considers just as important as her other roles at NASA is known for the people and probes it sends NASA. She’s even been back to William & Mary a to other worlds, but there’s plenty that went up number of times to speak with students about plan- into space only to look back at where it came from. etary geology, but it’s the small children — especially Twenty-two NASA satellites orbit Earth today, trans- girls — who get most excited. When a little girl draws mitting data about cloud cover, water temperature a female scientist in a white lab coat instead of a man, and atmospheric composition. “We live on the most Stofan gets excited herself. beautiful planet in the solar system,” Stofan says, but “Getting to Mars is hard. Working on climate the data we’re getting back from those satellites isn’t always a pretty picture. “Our focus right now is on climate change. The President has said that this is the greatest threat this country has for the future,” she says. “So at NASA, we really try to document what is happening to the planet and how we can improve models to be able to better forecast. And then, certainly, how can we try to communicate that information to the public?” A few months ago, Stofan helped with the release of a massive NASA dataset of rainfall and temperature predictions under several diferent climate change scenarios. The data projects out to 2099 at a 25-kilometer resolution in hopes of making a real diference for farmers from South America to Iowa as they attempt to plant more resilient crops. “Climate change is alarming,” she says. “You look at these temperatures and you look at these scenarios, and it’s extremely alarming. I don’t want to sugarcoat that. … Climate change isn’t just some abstract thing that might happen in the future. It is happening right now on a day-to-day basis. change is hard,” she says. “If we only have half the FUTURE ASTRONAUTS: “We’re losing ice in the Arctic; we’re losing per- population trying to solve these problems, we’re Above: Stofan and NASA Administrator Charles Bolden mafrost; the coast of Alaska is being afected by never going to get them solved.” answer questions from kids storms more than ever because of all that open water. These are the kids, after all, who might be onboard prior to the White House’s The tree line is moving northward as temperatures that Orion mission to Mars in the 2030s. Or maybe annual State of Science, Tech- nology, Engineering and Math warm — we’re seeing these efects right now.” they’ll study the exoplanetary data returning from address in January. Stofan wants to use NASA’s data to help miti- the James Webb Space Telescope. Stofan counts gate some of the dangers of climate change and try herself in the earthbound group, thanks in part to CHANGES: Facing page: to change our behavior so it doesn’t get worse. But an experience at an early NASA launch. The Columbia Glacier in NASA can’t change the world alone. Part of Stofan’s “When I was four years old, the rocket exploded Alaska is one of many vanish- ing around the world. Glacier mission is to educate and advocate for the next gener- on the launch pad,” she says. “So maybe that’s why I retreat is one of the most ation of scientists, who will advance NASA’s mission never wanted to become an astronaut.” direct and understandable on Earth and in space. But the thrill of discovery is just as powerful from effects of climate change. The consequences of the decline One way to do that is to involve regular folks in her ofce in Washington, D.C. — or on the occasions in alpine glaciers include a sort of crowd-sourced data-gathering experiment. when data comes back while she’s on vacation. contributing to global sea NASA calls it “citizen science,” and it’s aimed at giving “It’s this incredible feeling of exploration — of dis- level rise. untrained people a role to play in combing through a covery,” she says. “But if you’re a chicken like me, it massive amount of data. NASA’s Wide-field Infrared means I could be in my pajamas at home downloading Survey Explorer telescope collected thousands of the images onto my computer. It’s a very comfortable images of stars between 2011 and 2013, and comput- way to do amazing exploration and discovery. That’s ers weren’t as good as humans at examining them for what I love about this job.” exoplanet-indicating dust clouds. After posting the And on a really clear night, from her deck at home in BIG IDEAS: Hear from images to a public website, NASA received over 1 mil- Virginia, she can sometimes watch a rocket launch sky- Ellen at Homecoming 2015, lion classifications of stars by the general public. The ward, soaring into the great unexplored vastness of space. during a panel discussion on Transformational Innovation, No.-1 discoverer got to accompany a NASA scientist to Someday, maybe even to distant, mysterious at 9 a.m. Oct. 24 at Miller Hall

PHOTO: NASA/BILL INGALLS NASA/BILL PHOTO: a telescope in Chile to help with further observation. Kepler 435b. on campus.

FALL 2015 W&M ALUMNI MAGAZINE 35 The New Syllabus

Ted Dintersmith ’74 reimagines education

By Kelley Freund

illustration by david plunkert

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FALL 2015 W&M ALUMNI MAGAZINE 37 A third-grade boy takes a test in his science class. A question asks, “What would you use to lift a grown man?” For the past few weeks, the class had been learning about simple machines. The boy really liked the subject. In fact, his father took him to the hardware store and they bought gears and pulleys and put them together. The boy thinks about this, then sketches out a six-pulley system into the small space allotted for the answer. • A few days later, the boy gets the test back. A big red X is slashed through his design. The correct answer? Lever.

ON A MISSION been all about innovation and entrepreneurs. As one The boy’s father is Ted Dintersmith ’74. His thoughts of the top venture capitalists in his field, Dintersmith on the “correct” answer? “These kids are 3 feet, 11 has interviewed many people, usually for senior posi- inches tall. Show me how they’re going to use a lever tions, and he had started to notice a pattern. He saw to lift a 200-pound man. Also, the assumption that that often those with the most impeccable academic there’s only one answer is sheer stupidity.” track record who had great careers at large struc- Don’t underestimate Dintersmith. Behind the tured companies, often floundered when they left to warm smile and glasses is a man on a mission. After a work at more innovative startups. 25-year career in venture capital, Dintersmith is now “These people were very good at jumping through focused on issues at the intersection of innovation hoops,” Dintersmith said. “They did very well at a and education. In the fall of 2012, he served as part of structured companies like IBM or Goldman Saks. But the delegation representing the United States at the put them in something that has wide-open spaces United Nations General Assembly, where he focused where you have to invent things, deal with ambiguity on global education and entrepreneurship. He is now and fail frequently as part of your daily life, those funding and supporting a range of initiatives, mostly people who were academic superstars often didn’t nonprofits, which seek to improve the life prospects do that well in that environment.” of youth around the globe, including Avanti Fellows It seemed to Dintersmith that if the top perform- and the African Leadership Academy. ers in the education system were at a loss in the inno- Dintersmith also used his time and resources to vation world, something was wrong. help fund and produce the education documentary That something is an education system that was “Most Likely to Succeed,” teaming up with director created over 120 years ago for an economy that no Greg Whiteley of One Potato Productions. The film longer exists. premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2015 and Dintersmith will be bringing the documentary to all A HISTORY OF EDUCATION 50 states in the coming school year. In each state, Classes based on age. Separate classes for each sub- he plans to pull together educators, state ofcials, ject. The ringing of a school bell to denote when to philanthropists, parents and students to catalyze a shufe to the next subject. Structure. To us that’s discussion around the future of K-12 education. Also school. Because for over a century, that’s what school just in time for the new school year, Dintersmith has been. released a book of the same name with education This education model was specifically designed expert Tony Wagner, sharing insights and stories, to meet the needs of the industrial revolution of the including profiles of successful students, teachers, 20th century. In the late 1800s, people like Andrew parents and business leaders. Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller saw that the But what does a venture capitalist know about United States no longer needed to produce farm- education? A lot, actually. Dintersmith’s career has hands. The education system needed to be able to

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“Our school system is not the way it is by accident. It was designed thoughtful- ly, over 120 years ago, and ironically, it was produce people who could follow instructions, read, rapidly innovation is advancing. “One of the byprod- designed to write and do basic math; in other words, be good ucts of that is, if a job is structured and routine, if it’s factory workers. Being creative or thinking criti- following instructions, if it’s doing the same thing purge the cre- cally was actually seen as getting in the way of being over and over again, that job will not be done by a ativity and in- a good worker on the assembly line. person. You’re seeing that already.” The United States was the first nation in the world A few years ago, Dintersmith had a meeting with novation out to take everyone, regardless of class, and eventually a fellow venture capitalist. His colleague was excited regardless of gender, and give those people a basic that they had just funded a company called Harvest of students.” education. And as a result, for 100 years, nobody Automation, which was going to replace minimum could touch America in terms of producing a work- wage jobs in landscape nurseries by using robotics force. This won us two World Wars and produced instead of people to move plants around. “I said, if one of the world’s best economies. But now we find those jobs are under threat, what job isn’t?” ourselves with the exact same school system, but an According to a 2012 Associated Press report, 53 per- economy that continues to shift due to globalization cent of recent college graduates are unemployed, or in and improvements in technology. a job that they could’ve just as easily gotten if they had “Our school system is not the way it is by acci- skipped college. Dintersmith thinks that today, parents dent,” said Dintersmith. “It was designed thought- are pushing their kids to excel at something that’s actu- fully, over 120 years ago, and ironically, it was ally going to hurt their chances in life later on. designed to purge the creativity and innovation out of “Education has to take into account what the econ- students. There’s a mismatch between a world that’s omy is already looking like,” said Sir Ken Robinson, begging for creativity and innovation and a school an author, speaker and international advisor on edu- system that’s trying to crush it out of kids.” cation featured in “Most Likely To Succeed.” “Part of Dintersmith feels this is a defining issue in today’s the problem is the current systems of education are society. As a person who spent most of his career in rooted in the old industrial economy of the 19th cen-

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FALL 2015 W&M ALUMNI MAGAZINE 39 21st century. It’s why so many employers are com- do that documentary for you,” Whiteley said, “but if plaining that the kids who do well in education still somebody does it, you’re really going to hate the film.” don’t have the right skills or attitudes or dispositions “Right away, I thought, I like this guy,” said to fill the vacancies they actually have.” Dintersmith. Whiteley explained to Dintersmith that if there were THE ROAD TO SUNDANCE just talking heads making lecture points, it would end Robert Redford founded the Sundance Institute in up being a boring documentary. He needed a good story 1981 to foster independence, risk-taking and new to rally the facts around. Fortunately for Dintersmith, voices in American film. That year, 10 emerging Whiteley was a good storyteller. Although Whiteley filmmakers were invited to Sundance Resort in the was going from tailing a bass player and a presidential mountains of Utah, where they worked with leading candidate in his other films to an issue-based “Most writers, directors and actors to develop their original Likely To Succeed,” he had a strong passion for subject independent projects. Now the Sundance Film Festival matter and he felt that, under Ted’s tutelage, he would is the largest independent film festival in the United be able to use those storytelling skills to find subjects States. Many notable filmmakers received their big who provided a lens for the bigger issue. breaks at Sundance, including Quentin Tarantino, “What I love about ‘Most Likely to Succeed,’” Steven Soderbergh and Kevin Smith. Putnam said, “is that it takes a bold idea about a “People always ask, how hard is it to get into new educational model and presents it in a way that Sundance?” said Keri Putnam, executive director of becomes a story that ... really engages us in conver- the Sundance Institute. “It’s pretty tough.” 12,000 sation about this idea. It’s destined to generate a lot films are submitted to the festival every year. Out of of debate, a lot of conversation, and hopefully create a “You go back and think how much time you dedicated to school, how much worry and anxiety, and you have so little payof later. I’ve heard some people say, well, it built character. It taught you to work hard. Those things are important. But can’t you build character and learn how to work hard and also learn something that you will be able to take with you later?”

FESTIVAL KINGS:Ted that group, Sundance chooses 120 features and 60 little change in the world. It’s the kind of film we love Dintersmith ’74 and Greg to 80 short films. to see at Sundance.” Whiteley at the Seattle International Film Festival. “Most documentary filmmakers look at Sundance “I know I have a good idea when I’m starting to as Carnegie Hall,” said Whiteley. “They will tell you talk to people and they ask what I’m working on, and this is the premier place to launch a film.” there’s two or three sentences that just spill out, and But Whiteley almost turned down the opportu- before I get to the third sentence, it starts to feel like nity to work on “Most Likely to Succeed.” When a punch line, like the reveal of a really great story,” Dintersmith began looking for someone to direct Whiteley said. “I’ve noticed that those are the kinds the documentary, he received several consecutive of topics that I look for.” recommendations to hire Greg Whiteley. Whiteley For Whiteley, this particular topic was also per- is best known for his production company, One sonal. A father of two, both of his children seemed Potato Productions, and his documentaries “New to have quit on school. While he and his wife were York Doll,” “Resolved” and “Mit.” His work has gar- able to convince their son to buckle down and study PHOTO ERIN WHITELEY nered two Emmy nominations and three previous hard, their daughter wasn’t buying it. premieres at Sundance. “It was forcing my wife and I to really look at When Dintersmith called Whiteley up, he laid out education,” Whiteley said. “We had a choice to what he considered his brilliant view for the film. make. We either had to take our daughter and bend Whiteley was not impressed. “Not only will I not her into the type of person who would do well in

40 W&M ALUMNI MAGAZINE WWW.WMALUMNI.COM CREATIVE SPACE: The original High Tech High opened in September 2000 in a newly renovated facility at the former naval training center in San Diego. Since then, High Tech High Learning has renovated buildings for five additional schools at the same location, creating a “village” of three high schools, two middle schools and an elementary school.

“What I love about ‘Most Likely to Suc- ceed’ is that ... it’s destined to generate a lot of debate, this traditional school, or we maybe had to reex- “You can study the world through almost anything,” a lot of con- amine traditional school.” Rosenstock said. “And I did that through carpentry.” Even Whiteley himself had played the game when Rosenstock also found that carpentry was versation, he was a kid. School was just something to get through, good for teaching math. His students would have and hopefully and that ultimately what he wanted to do in life had to learn basic geometry in order to build things nothing to do with what was going on in the classroom. in class, and he noticed that these kids would not create a little “And how bizarre is that?” said Whiteley. “You only willingly learn the math, they would retain change in the go back and think how much time you dedicated to that information because they saw an immediate school, how much worry and anxiety, and you have application for it. world. It’s the so little payof later. I’ve heard some people say, well, “If you were to change education in such a way kind of ﬁlm it built character. It taught you to work hard. Those that kids could see the application for their day-to- things are important. But can’t you build character and day life now and their life moving on, they would be we love to see learn how to work hard and also learn something that much more willing to work longer and harder at tasks at Sundance.” you will be able to take with you later?” that are developing skills,” Whiteley said. “I think you’d be shocked at how a school could be potentially A NEW KIND OF SCHOOL transformed by just addressing that one component. Before Larry Rosenstock was the founder of High Simply make what they’re learning actually useful in Tech High in San Diego, the school featured in “Most their day to day life and in a way that they’ll see will Likely to Succeed,” he taught carpentry to inner- beneﬁt them in the future.” city kids at the height of desegregation in Boston. High Tech High is doing just that. For his students, a two-by-four was a lesson in his- In theory, a standardized curriculum, like those at tory. The kids he taught really wanted to know why conventional schools, makes sense, at least organi- a two-by-four was actually 1 ½ inches by 3 ½ inches. zationally. What’s being taught in one classroom of Rosenstock told them that they cut the two inches a grade level is being taught in the other classrooms TED TALK: Hear more about “Most Likely to Suc- down to 1 7 8 and then 1 ¾, and eventually down to 1 of the same grade level. All these kids are learning ceed” at Homecoming 2015, at ½. By looking at the size of the wood used to build a the same things, so that when they move on to the 9 a.m. Oct. 23 at the School of

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FALL 2015 W&M ALUMNI MAGAZINE 41 GEARHEADS: their new teachers can pick up where the previous doesn’t necessarily want every school to be exactly Students at High Tech ones left of. like his. “What I really liked about this film is that it High created a model to show the rise and fall of But at High Tech High, there is no standardized restated what I’ve always hoped: the world doesn’t civilizations through- curriculum. The method of teaching is project-based need more High Tech Highs; the world needs more out history. The model learning, where students are given a project that diferentiated schools,” he said. “That’s the key was built using gears, which the students con- involves working independently or in groups, and message. In an innovation economy, we really need structed themselves. doing research to complete it. The projects difer in some experimentation.” THE START OF A MOVEMENT So what does Dintersmith think the ideal school looks like? “It would be a school that provides the kind of experience I had my senior year at William & Mary,” he said. For Dintersmith, a transformational aspect of his time at the College was the two honors projects he completed as a senior. “I was given a chance to play a big role in defining an important problem that I cared about. I learned a lot along the way about completing an ambitious project and having it fail every which way from Sunday. Did I learn a lot of skills that help me in life? Yes.” But with today’s K-12 system, Dintersmith feels that students aren’t learning those important skills. “You can’t be a doctor unless you do really well in organic chemistry,” said Dintersmith. “And I can’t find doctors who ever use it. If we’re going to insist that our kids “We would each class. While one group of freshmen might be get really good at something, we need to be able to studying an ancient play and adapting it to modern explain what the goal is of that. What is the lasting say, unabash- day, another might be building a model to show the important consequence from that time spent invest- edly, that rise and fall of civilizations. ing in developing a capability? Because we are not So kids are learning diferent things in each of the going to have a civil society that holds together or we’re trying to ninth grade classrooms? When Whiteley posed that a robust economy if we have a whole bunch of kids create an edu- question to Rosenstock, he admitted that it could be who are good at factoring polynomials.” a problem. However, he countered with this: Studies If you go back to when Dintersmith and Whiteley cational move- show that when students just memorize content and started working on the documentary, they said a PHOTO COURTESY LIKELY OF “MOST TO SUCCEED” FILM ment with then take a test, that information is not retained. great outcome would be getting into a major film Sometimes even as little as three weeks later, that festival. In a really great outcome, that film festival this. I felt like, content is gone. Schools like High Tech High think would be Sundance. And an extraordinary outcome if we could it’s better to get kids excited about learning a partic- would be great critical reviews. ular thing. Once they start diving into it, they learn “But ultimately, our goal has been much broader than get an amaz- a tool set that they can take with them into the next that,” said Dintersmith. “We want to use ‘Most Likely ing film, we’d grade. That tool set can be skills like collaboration, to Succeed’ as a vehicle to provide a clear perspective leadership and communication, all talents today’s and vision for parents, teachers and students about what have a fighting employers are looking for. school could be like if you thought about it from scratch, chance to High Tech High sends 98 percent of its students to prepare kids for a world of innovation. We would say, to college. That’s impressive by itself. What’s even unabashedly, that we’re trying to create an educational do that.” more impressive is that 45 percent of the school’s movement with this. I felt like, if we could get an amaz- population is below the poverty line. But Rosenstock ing film, we’d have a fighting chance to do that.”

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WJILL ELLIS ’88 ANDI U.S. NWORLD CUP CHAMPIONS INSPIRE ANOTHER GENERATION BY MITCH VANDER VORST

. It had been 16 years. The U.S Women’s National Team (USWNT) had not won a World Cup since heroes such as Mia Hamm, Julie Foudy and Brandi Chastain lifed the trophy in 1999. For an entire generation of young women, this was a distant memory — if that. Jill Ellis ’88 was born into the world of English football, or soccer, not long after England had won their first and only men’s World Cup. Her father was a respected coach. Her brother played and shared the family passion. Yet she was obliged to be a spectator — playing was unbecoming for young ladies at that time (the first women’s World Cup wasn’t held until 1991). What little field time she got was at her brother’s pick-up games when they needed an extra player.

FALL 2015 W&M ALUMNI MAGAZINE 45 That would all change when her family moved from close to. We had very little in terms of resources in Cowplain, England, near Portsmouth, to Northern those early days. There weren’t any scholarships. Virginia when she was 15. Three years later, she cap- Our pregame meals were at McDonald’s and if we tained her high school to a state championship, fol- ate at Wendy’s we thought we had struck it rich. But lowed by an under-19 national championship with her in terms of people who were passionate about what club team, the Braddock Road Bluebelles. they did and who loved to go out and compete in the When it was time to take the next step, Ellis was in school colors, there was a lot of pride. It was people unchartered waters. No one from her family had ever playing because they loved the sport. They wanted gone to college and making a living at soccer for a young to represent William & Mary.” woman in the 1980s was still only a dream. She asked her The team was a family. They practiced and played teammates where they were considering and a number games in the middle of campus. Students would wan- mentioned William & Mary. Her father learned that it der by and stop to watch. The team also did a lot of was a strong academic school with a good soccer pro- the ﬁeld, socializing together and hitting the delis gram. William & Mary also had the beneﬁt of its intimate after a big weekend or big win. size, something that appealed to the extremely shy Ellis. “It was tough to balance the [school] load and that

TRIBE PRIDE: While playing for W&M, Ellis’s team made the NCAA tournament all four years. Ellis finished her college career as the program’s all-time leading scorer. PHOTOS: PREVIOUS SPREAD: BRAD SMITH/ISIPHOTOS.COM; FROM LEFT: COURTESY TRIBE ATHLETICS; BRAD SMITH/ISIPHOTOS.COM “She understood the game and had a great way of work- “W&M was the perfect fit,” says Ellis. “It was small is still a challenge for student-athletes today,” says ing with peo- enough that I could have a good group of friends and Ellis. “We would be in the van traveling and we all had ple. She was a get to know my professors. It was such a good base a flashlight so that we could study. There were a lot of good listener for me in terms of all the things that I wanted to do.” long road trips spent reading and doing our academics and always Since its beginning in 1981, William & Mary’s wom- on the road. There are very few schools that can have en’s soccer has had its share of success. John Charles, that balance of academics and athletics. That is what responded to the founding head coach, now a W&M professor of was so appealing to me. I knew I would come out [of people in a pos- kinesiology, had recruited Ellis to play forward. For William & Mary] with a fantastic education.” itive way. She Ellis’s first three years, the team made it to the NCAA Throughout her high school and college career, tournament only to lose in the first game. Her senior Ellis played side-by-side with two of her best friends was competitive year, however, under new Head Coach John Daly and and fellow W&M Athletics Hall of Fame inductees but never had Assistant Coach April Heinrichs, William & Mary Megan McCarthy ’88, the 1987 NCAA Collegiate an ego. I saw made it to the Elite Eight and Ellis was named third- Player of the Year who missed playing on the 1991 her leadership team All-American. During her college career, William World Cup team due to injury, and Julie Cunningham & Mary’s record was 44-20-11 and Ellis finished as the Shackford ’88, who recently retired as the win- at the time team’s all-time leading scorer with 32 goals, a record ningest coach in Princeton history. According to and the possi- that has since been surpassed. Charles, they formed the backbone of a powerful bilities of “She was a joy to be around,” says Charles. “She team. Their assistant coach, April Heinrichs, would her being a understood the game and had a great way of work- go on to captain the winning team at the inaugural ing with people. She was a good listener and always World Cup in 1991 and coach the 2003 USWNT to a great coach.” responded to people in a positive way. She was compet- third-place finish. itive but never had an ego. I saw her leadership at the After college, Ellis had no intention of following time and the possibilities of her being a great coach.” in her father’s coaching footsteps. While psychology What Ellis remembers most are the people who piqued her interest, she majored in English, her second touched her life. “I have great memories of all the passion, with a minor in history. “I wrote for the Flat friendships and people, many of whom I am still Hat; I was inspired by Nathanial Y. Elliot’s Romantic Lit.

46 W&M ALUMNI MAGAZINE WWW.WMALUMNI.COM courses,” says Ellis. “I figured that any profession that I overall college coaching record during her 14 years as “My father went into would need people who can write.” a head coach was 248-63-14. Coaching appointments But coaching would turn out to be a way to pay for to the U.S. national youth teams followed. was a coach graduate school. While pursuing a master’s degree in “Coaching really helped me evolve,” says Ellis. and a mentor technical communications, Ellis assisted the North “I was incredibly shy and it was a means for me to to many women Carolina State women’s soccer team. The team won really grow in my communication skills and teaching. soccer players the ACC Championship and she enjoyed every min- And it helped me grow in my personality. For me, as ute of her time back on the field. While the hook was much as I fought it, my passion was the game and my and coaches. set, she still didn’t see coaching as a career path. passion was teaching and coaching and soccer. So it My brother was “My father was a coach and a mentor to many pulled me back.” coaching at women soccer players and coaches,” says Ellis. “My In the 24 years since the Women’s World Cup brother was coaching at George Mason. It was definitely began, the USWNT had never finished lower than George Mason. in the gene pool and I fought it as long as I could.” third place. They were crowned champions in 1991 It was definitely Instead, she followed the more lucrative path of and 1999. U.S. soccer fans considered themselves as in the gene pool becoming a technical writer for Northern Telecom the rightful owners of the trophy. Expectations for and I fought it in the Triangle area of North Carolina. After two the 2015 World Cup were high and questions about years, however, Heinrichs reeled Ellis in by ofering the team and comparisons to 1991 filled sports sec- as long as her an assistant coaching position at the University tions across the country. I could.” of Maryland. Ellis hasn’t looked back since. Then, with a little more than a year remaining After three years at Maryland she spent another until the World Cup, Ellis was called up to lead the year on the University of Virginia’s coaching staf. full women’s national team. “It was a pretty short AT THE HELM: She would go on to head coaching positions at the timeframe,” says Ellis. “I had a lot of familiarity [with Ellis led the UCLA Bruins University of Illinois and UCLA, where she led the the players] but it still was about blending new play- to eight NCAA Final Four appearences. She took over Bruins to eight NCAA Final Four appearances. In ers with the veterans. We knew what our destination for the women’s national 2000, she was named National Coach of the Year. Her was, we knew we wanted to lift the trophy, but it team in 2014.

FALL 2015 W&M ALUMNI MAGAZINE 47 HOMETOWN HEROS: The 2015 Women’s World Cup final was the most-watcheed soccer game in U.S. history and inspired the next generation of female soccer players.

really was about establishing the path and process In the U.S., broadcast television commentators criti- that we were going to take and committing to that.” cized Ellis’s coaching. They questioned player selec-

The World Cup was a microcosm of the bigger tion, formation and the style of play. PHOTO: MIKE LAWRENCE/ISIPHOTOS.COM process. “You don’t play your best soccer in the first “From the day I took the job, I knew that I wasn’t game,” says Ellis, “It is a seven-game tournament, going to read anything or go outside of the people you have to evolve and you don’t want to peak too that were directly involved in the team,” says Ellis. early. It was a four- or five-week snapshot of the big “You have to stay focused on what you are doing and picture with the team.” the reality is … that is the nature of being a leader. The USWNT won their group to advance to the I just kept my head down and stayed focused on knock-out stage of the tournament, but the path to the process.” the final was fraught with injuries and yellow-card Ellis recalls individual meetings she had with Carli suspensions to key players. Goals were hard to come Lloyd, one of the USWNT’s primary goal scorers. by. It seemed the team wasn’t firing on all cylinders. In the first couple of games Lloyd was struggling to

48 W&M ALUMNI MAGAZINE WWW.WMALUMNI.COM times the ofense struggled. But it only took Lloyd three “You constantly minutes to score the first goal, the fastest in World Cup final history. Then, within the first 16 minutes, the U.S. want to keep had added another three goals, including two more your sport from Lloyd. The game would finish 5-2, with the U.S. relevant. I knew again announcing their dominance. that winning Daly, who is beginning his 30th season as head coach of W&M women’s soccer, says, “Jill has worked the World with and learned from some great coaches, including Cup would her father John, who was an outstanding coach, April inspire another Heinrichs and Tom Sermanni. She showed with her generation astute line-ups and substitutions [in the World Cup] that she is a mature and observant coach. To keep and, for these star players happy when they are not playing as much players that as in the past is also the mark of a coach who has won have worked so over the dressing room.” “Connecting with my players was a big part of it,” hard, it would says Ellis. “As we went through it, I never looked cap their legacy up.” It wasn’t until the team was flying home that because they the weight of the team’s accomplishment began to hadn’t won a sink in. She still hadn’t peeked behind the curtain to see what was going on back in the U.S. On the plane, World Cup. It Ellis was notified of a big rally that would be held in was nice to see downtown Los Angeles. She had lived in L.A. and her it really come first thought was, “who is going to show up for that?” together.” When they got to the rally, there were more than 10,000 people celebrating the team. The World Cup final had been the most-watched soccer game in U.S. television history. It was then that she realized that they had accomplished something truly special. “The hope for me was to bring the sport forward,” said Ellis. “You constantly want to keep your sport relevant. I knew that winning the World Cup would inspire another generation and, for these players that have worked so hard, it would cap their legacy because they hadn’t won a World Cup. It was nice to see it really come together.” The USWNT is currently on a 10-game Victory Tour. Ellis, with a recently announced multi-year contract extension, will be leading the team onward into the years ahead. “As we look towards the Rio Olympics and build towards the 2019 World Cup in France, we think Jill is the ideal person to lead the next generation of the Women’s National Team,” said U.S. Soccer President Sunil Gulati in an Aug. 5 press release. “I am not surprised,” says Charles, “but very pleased that she has fulfilled her potential to become play to her full potential. Ellis remembers saying to an outstandingly efective national team coach.” her, “don’t stress, this is going to happen. It is seven “Ultimately [William & Mary] was a home run for games. It is not going to be perfect. Stay focused.” She me,” says Ellis. “It all worked out and I have a great believed that Lloyd was a big game player and that her fondness for W&M. The decision to go to William & time would come. “She just had to keep doing what she Mary was a big juncture in terms of preparing me for was doing and not stress about it,” says Ellis. this stage of my life.” The USWNT walked onto the field in Vancouver For Ellis, it has always been about people and for the World Cup final with the expectations of the relationships. “It is an amazing honor to coach this nation squarely on their shoulders. It was a chance group of women,” says Ellis. “It was a privilege to for redemption against Japan, the team that beat work with the players and staf because everyone the U.S. in the 2011 final only four years before. Most was so committed and so dedicated and singularly everyone expected a tight, hard-fought game. While focused that we really felt that we were one unit defensively the U.S. had been consistently strong, at and one team.”

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52 Highliner 56 Brewed in Beijing 58 All That Jazz

LOOKS LIKE AUTUMN Amidst the scenic locations on campus (like the Crim Dell Bridge) are more than 300 species of woody plants. This collection represents a PHOTO: SALPUKAS STEPHEN living archive that supports research and teaching at William & Mary. This collection is known as the Bald- win Memorial Collection of Woody Species afer John T. Baldwin Jr., professor of biology from 1946 to 1974.

FALL 2015 W&M ALUMNI MAGAZINE 51 52 W&M ALUMNI MAGAZINE WWW.WMALUMNI.COM Phil Sun ’06 worked his way up from the mailroom to agent status at William Morris Endeavor. Highliner

Ida Hall ’72 Fishes Virginia

ALUMNI PROFILE Ida Hall ’72 grew up in Danville, Va., but spent most summers and many vacations at her family’s farm on the Chesapeake Bay near Kilmarnock, Va. Her childhood was full of adven- tures on the water and it was through them that she discovered her calling. “Uncle Ben instilled in me his deep love and respect for the land and water, taught me how to operate a boat, and respect for other boaters,” says Hall. Ida first experienced a waterman’s routine in the summer of 1964 when she went out with her cousin Hal to watch him fish pound nets. From that first sun- rise trip, “I was awestruck by the seemingly infinite, untainted, wild beauty of the Bay and surrounding undeveloped land, and amazed that people made a living working so close to nature,” says Hall. “I marveled at the bounty, diversity and constantly changing life that Hal and his two-man crew brought up in the nets.” “I knew it was what I wanted to do for the rest of my life,” says Hall. “But even as I thought that, I knew it was a foolish dream. The only other women on the water were waterman’s wives and even if it was an acceptable occupation for a girl, I simply did not have the size or strength to put out or fish a pound net. That was that. I would enjoy myself and get on with my life.” But by the late 1960s, monofilament gillnets would make gillnetting commercially competitive with and easier than pound net fishing. “I did not like seeing fish captured by their gills, struggling to escape,” says Hall. “It wasn’t the same as seeing the fish caught and kept alive in the pound net. I swore I would never fish a gillnet!” PHOTO: SKIP ROWLAND ’83 When Ida became a member of the Tribe, she followed another family tradition. Her uncle Ben and many cousins had graduated from William & Mary. Her father, one or two great-uncles, and several cousins also graduated Phi Beta Kappa. Although Hall excelled in and loved biology in high school, and considered marine science as a profes-

FALL 2015 W&M ALUMNI MAGAZINE 53 “It wasn’t the same as seeing the fish caught and kept alive in the pound net. I swore I would never fish a gillnet!”

sion, she never took a college biology class. Instead, Making money gillnetting put it into a diferent per- she followed her academic advisor’s advice to major spective by providing necessary income for me to in psychology. remain on the farm longer.” When she attended the first Earth Day celebra- Ida rekindled her connection to William & Mary tion at Lake Matoaka on April 22, 1970, she found in 1986 when she enrolled in the archaeological herself gravitating towards other interests such as field school conducted at VIMS and took additional protecting the environment. During her senior year, archaeology classes in 1987 and 1988. She was eager she signed up for a Biology Club camping trip to to learn more about the Native American and English Shenandoah National Park. artifacts that she, her brothers and cousins found on the farm. She learned much from the professors and younger students, and shared with them about her life working on the water, even showing them how to fish a gillnet, catch crabs and tong oysters. Educating others about what she does is something that Hall has become well-versed in. In 2013, she participated in Virginia’s first Waterman’s Heritage Ecotourism program which provides additional opportunities for working watermen to earn a living by taking others out to experience first-hand what watermen do. Last year, Gov. Terry McAulife HON ’14 reappointed Ida to her fourth consecutive term on the Potomac River Fisheries Commission, a bi-state (Maryland and Virginia) governmental organization that works to conserve and improve the fish- ery resources in the main stem of the Potomac River. In 2014, National Fisherman magazine, the country’s largest publication for commercial fishing, named Ida a “Highliner,” an award that recognizes commercial watermen who “display a passion for fishing and advocate for the sustainability of fish and fishermen.” Hall serves as secretary for the Virginia Waterman’s CO-CAPTAINS: Association and for the Northumberland Association Since Ida Hall ’72 began working on the water, for Progressive Stewardship, an environmental orga- dogs have played a big nization focused on preserving the local environmental part in sharing the heritage through education of sound land-use practices waterman’s experience on her boat. and water-quality initiatives. She is also a member of the Virginia Blue Crab Industry Panel, an organization that works to sustain the population and harvesting of the species, and has served on Congressman Rob Wittman’s Environmental Advisory Panel since 2008. She also works part time at Rappahannock Hang-Ups and Gallery in Kilmarnock. FROM TOP: SKIP ROWLAND ’83; COURTESY IDA HALL ’72 Since 1973, seven dogs have accompanied Ida on the water. Currently, beagle Ruby and yellow lab “It turned out to be one of the best things I did Toby Grace are often seen in her boat as she contin- at William & Mary,” says Hall. “The friendships and ues to follow her passion and preserve a family heri- experiences on the initial and subsequent trips have tage and culture of working on the water. In 2005, Ida endured for a lifetime.” and her two brothers placed a conservation easement After graduation, Hall returned to the family farm on the family farm to preserve in perpetuity their on the Chesapeake Bay for two weeks before looking family and environmental heritage. for a job. With friends still nearby at William & Mary “William & Mary’s curricula, professors and and her brother James giving her his slightly used students motivated within me a desire for lifelong gillnet, the weeks quickly melted into months. learning and provided the incentive to further my “The first time I successfully set a gillnet, I caught education in and out of the classroom,” she says. $54 worth of striped bass!” says Hall. “I was hooked! —VAYDA PARRISH ’17

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FALL 2015 W&M ALUMNI MAGAZINE 55 THE BREW CREW: Alex Acker ’00 (left) and Kristian Li of Jing-A Brewing in Beijing use unique Chinese ingredients in their craft beer. Brewed in Beijing Alex Acker ’00 and Jing-A Brewing Ride the Chinese Craft Beer Wave

ALUMNI PROFILE The tap list at Jing-A Brewing brewing, and began making beers together. “We were in Beijing is unlike any bar you’ve ever been to. The both ready to take the leap into an entrepreneurial ven- Worker’s Pale Ale, Flying Fist IPA and Mandarin ture, and we were incredibly lucky to find this area that Wheat selections are the first indications that this we both love,” he says. “Something clicked.” won’t be your ordinary happy hour. They named the venture Jing-A, after the first “We’re able to brew craft beers that nobody has run of license plates in Beijing (“Jing” is “capital” in really brewed before,” says Jing-A cofounder and Chinese). Nowadays, according to the brewery’s web- brewmaster Alex Acker ’00. “We’re able to find inter- site, drivers would be lucky if they could snag a Jing-Q esting and unique Chinese ingredients like Sichuan plate. Jing-A “represents old-school Beijing,” says peppercorn and seasonal Chinese fruits — things Acker. “For people here in Beijing, it really resonates.” that have never really been played around with.” It began while Acker and Li were working five While by now, craft beer is responsible for almost 20 days a week in the corporate world and brewing at percent of beer consumption in the U.S., the industry is night in whatever space they could find. still in its infancy in China. Jing-A is poised to capitalize “The more positive feedback we started to get, on the world’s largest market for beer, Acker says. we decided to make the jump from our day jobs into PHOTO: COURTESY OF ALEX ACKER ’00 “Things have a way of changing very quickly in brewing full time,” he says. China,” he says. “Young people in particular here are When they opened the brewpub in spring of 2013, very open and curious about new things. Many peo- they finally had a facility where they could do the ple here are also starting to care more about what experimentation they wanted. In addition to Sichuan they eat and drink — preferring quality and organic peppercorns, Acker has brewed with sweet osman- over mass-produced — so craft beer fits in with this.” thus flower, jasmine tea, sake and watermelon. Acker began his career in public relations and went “We’re constantly thinking about seasonal fruit on to work at Apple in China, where he met Kristian ingredients that we can incorporate into our beer to Li. They quickly discovered a shared interest in home- create something really special,” he says.

56 W&M ALUMNI MAGAZINE WWW.WMALUMNI.COM “Tribe Tripel? College Delly Kolsch? Streak the Garden Summer Saison? Or Jump the Wall Juniper Pale Ale?”

It hasn’t all been smooth sailing for Acker, Li and States for a “serious job,” he’s amazed that he’s now Jing-A, however. For one thing, the microbrewing spent over 15 years there. infrastructure isn’t in place yet. “Some people want the security of a successful “There were a lot of challenges ﬁnding our sys- corporate job, right?” he says. “That’s really kind of tems,” he remembers. “Where were we going to get our a personal choice — everybody’s diferent — but for hops? Where were we going to get our malts?” China now I’m very happy.” also presents a unique set of licensing, regulations and Acker gives some of the credit for his entrepreneur- administrative challenges for the business. The nascent ial skills and risk-taking to his experiences at William status of craft beer in the country also contributes to the & Mary. “I had an awesome experience at William & difculty operating Jing-A in the capital. But selling the Mary,” he says. “The Chinese skills that I learned beer and growing a fanbase is the easy part. there were immediately useful, but I really grew up “Creating interest in our beers has never been the at William & Mary. The connections I made, the ana- problem,” he says. “If anything, we’ve struggled to keep lytical skills, getting a major in economics — it’s all up with exploding demand for our beers over the years.” proven useful. I think William & Mary prepared me In the near future, Jing-A plans to expand into to be independent and build my career here in China.” Shanghai, Tianjin and Hong Kong — which means And if Jing-A does happen to brew a beer in honor of more taps in China’s three largest metropolitan his alma mater, Acker has a few ideas on what to call it. areas. Acker hopes to eventually be able to export “We like to be a bit cheeky and irreverent with his beers to the United States. our beer names,” he says. “So maybe Tribe Tripel? “I think craft beer fans in the U.S. would get a kick College Delly Kolsch? Streak the Garden Summer out of our beers brewed with Chinese characteris- Saison? Or Jump the Wall Juniper Pale Ale?” tics,” he says. For now, though, Acker is focused on Sounds like the kind of Triathlon that William & his home market in China. Given that he planned to Mary beer fans worldwide can get behind. spend two years in Beijing before returning to the —BEN KENNEDY ’05 AND HUNTER HALL

FALL 2015 W&M ALUMNI MAGAZINE 57 “I challenge myself to be clever with every turn of every phrase and never waste a lyric.”

INTRODUCING UVJQ: (from left) Ginny Carr ’75, Robert McBride ’79, Holly Shockey, and Andre Enceneat. UVJQ has been profiled on NPR, been played extensively on worldwide radio, and has played at landmark jazz festivals across the country.

All That Jazz Ginny Carr’s ’75 Music Hits the Charts

ALUMNI PROFILE There was never any question had hoped for, from extraordinary academics to a that music was in Ginny Carr’s ’75 blood. With par- small intimate college community with diverse extra- ents who were professional bass players and instru- curricular activities. “Most of all, I loved being next mental music teachers, Carr had a good musical ear. door to Colonial Williamsburg,” Carr says. “I became But what started out as a hobby of playing instru- a history geek just by being immersed in that culture, ments and singing eventually turned into a fruitful and I still am today.” (Case in point, Carr now works career. Carr is now the founder, musical director, at the Library of Congress, founded by W&M alum- alto vocalist, principal songwriter and arranger for nus Thomas Jeferson 1762). the internationally acclaimed Uptown Vocal Jazz Although she majored in psychology at William Quartet (UVJQ). Carr has emerged as a musician & Mary, music remained a big part of Carr’s life. She of distinction, especially for her original composi- joined the choir and had acting and singing parts in PHOTOS: G. STEWART MICHAEL tions on UVJQ’s newest CDs, “Hustlin’ for a Gig” William & Mary Theatre productions. and “Vocal Madness.” UVJQ’s recordings have made Immediately after graduation, Carr stayed in the Billboard Chart, Amazon’s top seller list and Williamsburg and took on the role of musical direc- JazzWeek Top 50 radio chart. tor for W&M Theatre. When a new student, Robert But when Carr was a teenager looking at colleges, McBride ’79, joined Carr’s pit band, the two became she had decided to pursue something other than friends and began to collaborate on other musical music. William & Mary ofered Carr everything she projects throughout the years. They discovered a

58 W&M ALUMNI MAGAZINE WWW.WMALUMNI.COM mutual love for the sound of vocal music that was The real challenge, and sometimes the greatest harmonically and rhythmically constructed to sound fun according to Carr, is putting lyrics to the com- like big band instrumental music. plex palette that is the sound of UVJQ. Carr believes The two moved to Richmond, Va., in the early ’80s their sound is relatively rare compared to the more and put together UVJQ, which took of in the local common sound of jazz instrumental groups and solo music scene. A few years later, the two migrated to vocalists. As opposed to solo vocalists, Carr’s lyrics Washington, D.C., teaming up with singers and instru- are delivered using a vocal quartet that can blend mentalists from the area. Over the years, there were together in harmonic precision like a jazz big band. many changes in personnel as UVJQ evolved from an “And we add the human element of story telling amateur group to a full-fledged professional ensemble. through lyrics, which you can’t get with an instru- For awhile, UVJQ performed material that had mental ensemble. The efect is uniquely engaging. I been done by someone else before it became clear to think it’s the marriage of great fun and great art.” Carr that she had the ability to write original songs Carr always knew that music would be a big part for the group to sing in their signature harmonic style. of her life, but she never dreamed that her musi- While the group still does arrangements that are part cal passions would take her to the world stage. of the standard jazz repertoire, much of what they per- “The older I get, the more I like to settle into the form are original songs written and arranged by Carr. ensemble and delight in the energy and sounds of “I challenge myself to be clever with every turn my music coming to life at the hands of other great of every phrase and never waste a lyric,” Carr says. musicians, who add their own creative ideas to it. “No matter what the subject, don’t write filler fluf The musical thoughts, colors and textures come when you could write something provocative or witty alive in a theater of sound and energy when we or gut-grabbing that will make the listener stop and perform. It’s a thrill.” think. There’s nothing more rewarding than knowing For more information, visit www.uptownvocal you wrote something that speaks to someone.” jazzquartet.com. —KELLEY FREUND

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FALL 2015 W&M ALUMNI MAGAZINE 59 Board Notes Preparing for the future of alumni engagement

Dear Alumni Association members, engagement activities. Through an examination of The Board of Directors seeks your approval of a pro- best practices of select peer institutions that have posal to amend the association’s bylaws to (1) increase adopted the advancement model, as well as its own the size of the board from 16 to 24 elected members self-assessment, the board has concluded that it and (2) change the term of ofce from the current sin- needs additional and enhanced expertise in order to gle four-year term to a three-year term with eligibility better address issues and options facing our alumni for election to one additional consecutive term. We and the College, to carry out its augmented responsi- believe these changes are important to enhance our bilities, and to assist alumni engagement staf. efectiveness to serve your Alumni Association under Additionally, in its review of best practices the the advancement model recently adopted by the College use of consecutive terms was predominant. It allows in cooperation with the Alumni Association. both the board member and the organization an opportunity to determine if continued service is in Why are these changes needed? the best interest of both parties, and it allows the Since the 2014 launch of the advancement model with expertise of the longer-standing board members to be the College, the Alumni Board, while maintaining retained. Thus, the board is recommending a change its independence, has committed to a greater and to a three-year term limit with the ability to serve more active role for planning, guiding and shaping two consecutive terms.

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Go online now to cast your vote for the current slate of nominees to replace the four board members whose terms expire in spring 2016. The board recommends a YES vote for the entire slate. Voting closes Nov. 6, 2015 at midnight. All alumni are eligble to vote in board elections. Full biographies and personal statements can be found at www.wmalumni.com/vote.

D. BRUCE CARLA DAVID TODD CHRISTIAN SHAFFER TODD WILLIAM ’73 MORE- SCOTT ’93 NORRIS “William & LAND ’81, “As a ’86 “W&M Mary has J.D. ’84 California has been a always been “William & kid, I came part of my about people and changing Mary is a deﬁning presence to William & Mary sight life since being born to alumni lives. It is the place where the in my life. Quite simply, I love unseen. I was shocked by how parents. The timelessness of the extraordinary happens. We this school! I met my husband venerable the institution was. institution allows multiple have a great responsibility at W&M and all three of our I’m constantly amazed on how generations to come together as stewards of this college to children have been baptized well prepared I was for to appreciate this wonderful continue the strong story of in the Wren Chapel. I look entering the workforce and the institution. I am excited about excellence that is William & forward to sharing my love and real world. William & Mary the opportunity to help the Mary into the future.” passion for W&M with alumni, allowed me to explore and Alumni Association create the staff of the College and the grow in a supportive environ- bonds with classes past, future alums.” ment.” present and future. Go Tribe!”

60 W&M ALUMNI MAGAZINE WWW.WMALUMNI.COM How will the changes be implemented? Article VI. Section 1a. (d) In order to efect the tran- The increase will happen over two election cycles. Four sition in Board of Directors As Reads: composition and terms as seats will be added to the ballot in 2016 with the (a) Directors shall serve they existed prior to Nov. remaining four added in 2017. The current nomina- terms of four years. Directors 6, 2015 to that adopted on tion processes will not change. Alumni Association may not serve consecutive Nov. 6, 2015, the following terms, but may be re-elected transition provisions shall be members may and are encouraged to nominate fellow or reappointed to the Board in efect: alumni and to run for the board themselves. if at least one year will elapse (1) Until commencement between terms. of the terms of directors The recommended changes to the bylaws that elected in 2016, composition require approval of the membership are cited As Amended: of the board shall remain below. A complete version of the Alumni Association (a) Members are elected for as in efect prior to the bylaws with recommended changes is available terms of three years. No November 2015 adoption of member may serve more than these bylaws. Board growth at www.wmalumni.com/bylaws_amended. will be phased in to allow all two consecutive terms. This current members to complete excludes partial terms and the Board of Directors shall their elected terms. Article VI. SECTION I. appointed one-year terms (2) Directors elected be composed of at least 24 provided for an outgoing prior to November 2015 As Reads: elected members, one third president to serve in an shall complete the terms for The voting membership of the of whom are elected annu- immediate past president which they were elected and Board of Directors shall be ally by the membership, as capacity. Additionally, a shall not be eligible to run composed of at least 12 but well as the immediate past president, elected to that post for re-election to a second no more than 16 members, as president of the associa- in their last year of eligibility, consecutive term. well as the immediate past tion as set forth herein. A shall remain on the board in (3) Directors elected in president of the Association member may be re-elected that capacity until the com- November 2015 shall serve a as set forth herein. or reappointed to the Board pletion of their ofcer term. three-year term in order to after one year has elapsed efect the transition. These As Amended: following the expiration of a New Administrative directors will be eligible for a The voting membership of second term. Paragraphs: second three-year term.

NOMINATIONS NOMINATIONS FOR ALUMNI FOR SERVICE AWARDS HONORARY ALUMNI

The Alumni Service Award and the Young Alumni The Alumni Association grants Honorary Alumni Service Award are given annually to recognize in- status to individuals with a distinguished record of dividuals for their exceptional service to the Alumni service on behalf of the College. Many honorees Association and the College through their involve- have been active and supportive spouses of alumni ment in alumni chapters, clubs and constituent alumni leaders. To nominate an individual, submit a letter organizations. The Young Alumni Service Award is describing his or her visible and consistent involve- speciﬁc to individuals ages 25 to 35. ment, advocacy, loyalty, and affection for W&M. All letters must be signed. You may download a nomination form for this and any other alumni award at www.alumni.com/?awards Mail your letter to Honorary Alumni Award, c/o or contact the ofﬁce of the executive director at Executive Director, WMAA, P.O. Box 2100, Wil- 757.221.7855. The deadline for nominations is liamsburg, VA 23187-2100 by Jan. 15, 2016. Feb. 1, 2016. The Board of Directors will select hon- The Board of Directors will select honorees at its orees at its spring 2015 meeting. spring 2015 meeting.

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Upon the 16 Gale Alumni Stay Connected From Coast to Coast

At William & Mary, the Regional Alumni Engagement 15 and Regional & International Advancement teams partner to provide alumni engagement opportunities that connect William & Mary alumni to alma mater and to each other. Below please ﬁnd the names and contact information for our regional teams:

NORTHEAST [email protected] Club of New York, the Omar Kamara ’15 newest afliate of the Regional Alumni Amanda Manzano ’15 Princeton Club of New Engagement Advancement York and its 200-plus Coordinator Coordinator worldwide reciprocal 757.221.2143 212.497.1189 x 200 clubs. Alumni, students, where they could 1779 Massachusetts [email protected] [email protected] parents and faculty are sip and learn about Ave, Suite 705 eligible for membership. diferent California Washington, DC 20036 William & Mary CHAPTERS Go to alumni.wm.edu/ and Italian wines. NYC Ofce 1. BOSTON club/nyc to learn more. Barbara Draughon 425 Madison Ave, The chapter planned to Also, the chapter hosted 4. PHILADELPHIA Senior Director, Suite 300 attend Play Day at the a sold-out, private The chapter gathered Regional & New York, NY 10017 Lawn on D; however, tour at the Museum of for various happy hours International due to an event relo- Modern Art. Alumni throughout the city Advancement Renee Davis ’94 cation, alumni met at were able to experience including a South Jersey 202.939.4000 Managing the Harpoon Brewery the “One-Way Ticket: bar, PJ Whelihans. [email protected] Director, Regional to enjoy one another’s Jacob Lawrence’s & International company. Alumni were Migration Series WASHINGTON, D.C. Laura Mackler Advancement also able to get together and Other Visions of Jack Edgar ’15 Associate Director, 212.497.1189 x 201 for a night of Beer & the Great Movement Regional Alumni Regional & International [email protected] Yoga at the Night-Shift North” exhibit. Engagement Advancement Brewery in September. Coordinator 202.939.4000 Craig Anzalone ’94 3. PITTSBURGH 757.221.2167 [email protected] Director, Regional 2. NEW YORK CITY In July, the chapter [email protected] & International The chapter hosted a attended a wine tasting CHAPTERS Advancement summer club mixer at at the Market Street William & Mary 5. DC METRO 212.497.1189 x 202 the William & Mary Grocery’s Wine Room Washington Ofce In July, the chapter

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4 & International dean and director, and 12 Advancement Mark Luckenbach,

3 6 757.221.1371 associate dean of [email protected] VIMS. Monthly Tribe 5 Thursdays continued John Hunter with the new regional 8 9 7 Associate Director, alumni engagement Regional & coordinators in July, International the Tribe ticket ofce Advancement in August and alumni 757.221.1027 in graduate school at [email protected] W&M in September.

Richard Long SOUTHEAST Assistant Director, Alli Puryear Regional & Senior Assistant International Director, Regional Advancement Alumni Engagement 10 757.221.1016 757.221.1173 14 11 [email protected] [email protected]

CHAPTERS Gerald Bullock 7. LOWER Senior Director, NORTHERN NECK Regional & International 13 In September, the Advancement chapter held their 757.221.1032 ﬁrst Tribe Thursday. [email protected]

hosted a rooftop pool Embassy at the Former 8. RICHMOND CHAPTERS party at the Embassy Residence of the The chapter continued 10. ATLANTA Row Hotel. Also in Ambassadors of Spain. their monthly First Alumni gathered July, alumni gathered The event featured Table dinner series together at Turner for An Evening with an exhibit of art from with restaurants in Field to cheer on the Sen. Tom Carper, along the Camino de VIRGINIA the Richmond area. Atlanta Braves as a discussion and Santiago, and special Carlton Smith ’15 The chapter and the they played against reception held by guest Professor George Regional Alumni Tribe Club went back the Chicago Cubs. the William & Mary Greenia of William Engagement to the Flying Squirrels Washington Office and & Mary’s Hispanic Coordinator in August to celebrate 11. C HARLESTON the Thomas Jefferson Studies Department 757.221.1171 Williamsburg Night, and The chapter hosted Program in Public and its Institute for [email protected] hosted the Grifn and an evening with the Policy. August saw the Pilgrimage Studies. Tribe men’s baseball Riverdogs in July. chapter welcoming the The chapter contin- Ann Ruble ’77 coaches at a pre-game William & Mary alum- W&M Class of 2015 ues to host monthly Senior Director, event at the Children’s nus and Riverdogs to D.C. with a trip to Martini Mondays. Regional & International Museum of Richmond. second baseman, Ryan Nationals Park to see Advancement Lindemuth ’14, felt Washington play the 6. MARYLAND 757.221.6322 9. WILLIAMSBURG the support from the Milwaukee Brewers. The Maryland Chapter [email protected] In June, the chapter field as Charleston Finally, in September, continues to hold held their annual dinner alumni, parents and the chapter held their monthly Tribe Thursdays Kathy Nolen-Martin and meeting with spe- students, including

ILLUSTRATION: SUHARU OGAWA SUHARU ILLUSTRATION: annual Evening at the around the state. Director, Regional cial guests John Wells, Noah Locasio ’19, new

FALL 2014 W&M ALUMNI MAGAZINE 63 Tribe men’s base- WEST Regional & INCOMING STUDENTS RECEPTIONS ball player, cheered Ric Lampkins ’14 International Throughout the summer, the Alumni Association, from the stands. Regional Alumni Advancement University Advancement and the Ofces of Engagement 757.221.2718 Parent and Family Programs and First Year CENTRAL Coordinator [email protected] Experience continued to host Incoming Student Alli Puryear 757.221.2144 Receptions across the nation hosted by the Senior Assistant [email protected] WILLIAM & MARY following parents and in other locations. Director, Regional LAW SCHOOL Alumni Engagement Kathleen Daugherty In May, Dean of the Northeast: New York, Southeast: 757.221.1173 Senior Director, Law School Davison Northern New Jersey, Atlanta - Emilie and [email protected] Regional &International Douglas, and Professor Southern Connecticut – Keith Evans P ’16, and Advancement Ron Rosenberg visited Judy and Alan Buchholz Brooke ’79 and Winston Robert Waggoner 858.752.3059 alumni and admitted P ’15, Alice Davison Weinmann P ’17. Director, Regional [email protected] students at events in P ’16, Cathy ’84 and Charlotte - alumni & International Beijing and Shanghai, Don Farnan P ’16. chapter. Advancement CHAPTERS China, at the ofces of Philadelphia, 757.221.1463 15. LOS ANGELES Norton Rose (Beijing) Southern New Jersey, Central: [email protected] Alumni volunteers, and Skadden Arps Delaware – Janet ’84 Austin - Robert and led by Robert Tisdale (Shanghai). The and Peter Atwater Hollis Gaston P ’15. CHAPTERS ’08, assembled to Richmond Chapter of ’83, P ’17. Pittsburgh Chicago - Michael 12. CHICAGO The organize an alumni Alumni for William & - Mary Pat and Jim and Trisha Nelson chapter attended a chapter for LA. Mary Law School, along Jones P ’13, P ’18. P ’16, P ’19. Virginia Schools happy with Dean Douglas, Cleveland - Terry and hour in which alumni 16. SAN FRANCISCO gathered in June at Washington, D.C.: Dianne Squire P ’18. from ﬁve Virginia The chapter welcomed Lemaire in the Jeferson DC Metro - Julie Dobson Dallas/Ft. Worth - Peter schools gathered new alumni to the Hotel. This Law School ’78 and Chet Thaker and Meg Carlsen P together. They also San Francisco area Richmond Chapter P ’17, P ’19. Baltimore ’17 and the Dallas/Ft. partnered with the Big with a picnic at the meets quarterly. The - Doug ’86 and Ellen Worth Alumni Chapter; Shoulders Fund for a Presidio. Alumni also Virginia Bar takers Brinkley ’86, P ’18, P ’19. Memphis - Edward ’92, day of service in July. received a tour of the from the Class of 2015 J.D. ’95 and Hillery Mare Island Brewing were in Roanoke, Va., Virginia: Efeman ’92, P ’19. 13. HOUSTON The Company by propri- recently to take the two- Roanoke - alumni chapter gathered etor Kent Fortner ’92. day Virginia Bar exam. chapter. West: together in August to Alumni gathered at the South Hampton Roads Los Angeles - Kevin watch “1776,” a musi- 17. SEATTLE The Roanoke Civic Center to - alumni chapter. Burke M.B.A. ’84, P ’18. cal, in support of the chapter held a sum- join them for lunch and Williamsburg/ San Diego - Jill Gunn director and William mer Happy Hour in to ofer encouragement. Lower Peninsula - and Steven Berman P & Mary alumna, Liz July at Canterbury In September, alumnae alumni chapter. ’16. San Francisco - Patti Sowers Buras ’86. Ale House to help of William & Mary Law Winchester - Susan ’87 and Lane Ringlee P ’18. reconnect alumni. School, the Raymond and Carl Lauer P ’19. Seattle - alumni chapter. 14. DALLAS/ A. Mason School of FT. WORTH INTERNATIONAL Business and William & In June, the chapter Kelly S. Holdcraft Mary met for a William hosted a happy hour Director, Regional & Mary Women in at Kent & Co. Wine. Alumni Engagement Washington discus- 757.221.1172 sion on “Building Your [email protected] Professional Network.”

Sani Silvennoinen Executive Director,

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